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Originally Posted by freebeard
What would you suggest? It would have to come down hard on China and India.
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To further complicate the issue, how would we define "fairness"?
The root cause of the issue, if it is as serious as some believe, is a large population. US citizens may have high per-capita consumption, but we're just about flatlined as far as population growth. Other countries may have substantially less per-capita consumption, yet a wildly growing population.
There's an inverse relationship between consumption per capita and population growth (family size). Wealthier people tend to be less interested in having large families. In the case of Japan, they aren't interested enough to maintain their current population. That appears to be the harbinger of trends to come for other nations.