Quote:
Originally Posted by Makarov
Why? How else should we measure? Should a Canadian be entitled to produce 40 times as much waste as a Chinese citizen?
|
It's the same as using GHG per capita. Waste, like pollution, is not diluted by number of people. A tonne of waste is a tonne of waste, no matter which side of the artificial line on a map you live on.
The use of per capita in cases like this is deliberately disingenuous, and is specifically designed to give the appearance that large population centres aren't nearly as bad.