Every citizen in the world should have equal rights to pollute the atmosphere
with carbon dioxide, Britain’s Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution will
argue in a report later this month. The commission, which advises the
government, will say that within 50 years every country’s emissions of
CO2 and other greenhouse gases should converge on a “global per capita norm”.
US per capita emissions are now twice those in Europe and 10 times as high as
those in developing countries.
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