Re: Errata

Hi Ben,

I thought that you where being a bit over generous with that statement about Chinese per capita emissions. But the exact numbers wern't vital to the discussion.

A couple of additional considerations;

China has emmitted only about 130% of what the UK has in terms of historic emissions. Most of this carbon is still in the atmosphere. The uk has a population of 60'000'000 wheras China has a population of roughly 1'300'000'000!

China constructed most of my electrical appliances, and probably most of yours. National emissions inventories place these emissions as a chineese responsibility, this is at very least debateable.

On the point of how questions are framed, i would highly reccomend that your readers check out work by the Rock Ethics Institute 'White Paper on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change'. EcoEquity have done some great work on past emissions and national responsibilities.