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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
The game over carbon footprint while on some levels well meaning is to distract that China puts out more than all other developed nations combined and has no intention of cutting back.  Same general idea to misdirect.  But I've seen a mental breakdown in a local pizza shop because they didn't have paper straws.
gpt
That's also an unfair metric, because obviously the most populous country in the world is going to have the most total emissions. Try looking at emissions per capita, and you'll see that China doesn't even come close to the US or many of the more developed western countries.

There's an idea that's being talked about that I believe is referred to as carbon equity. Essentially, western countries are using underdeveloped countries like China and India as scapegoats to shift the blame off of their own emissions. But there's a serious question to be had about whether or not underdeveloped countries should be allowed to use the same fossil fuels the most developed countries got to use to reach their point. It would be unfair for the US and Western Europe to tell countries with extreme poverty that they can't develop solutions to their own problems because of the environment, when that's exactly what we did.

As the most developed countries, it's our responsibility to be the ones to cut back the most, since we have the means to do it, and do the research for new technologies to allow underdeveloped countries to help their people in a way that has as little of an impact on the environment as possible.