People are almost completely focused on current rate of emission, and while that’s okay in and of itself since that’s the only thing we can actually change going forward, it’s also important to consider that from the atmosphere’s perspective, it’s the total amount of GHGs emitted that determine the severity of climate change. CO2 has an atmospheric lifetime on the order of a thousand years, so all the CO2 we dumped into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution is still there.
Therefore, this tells us how much each country has actually contributed to climate change.
The relevance is that every citizen of the UK currently enjoys a standard of living that is a direct result of that resource usage. So to answer your question, yes, everyone is responsible, unless they suddenly decide to go live the life of a hermit.
People are almost completely focused on current rate of emission, and while that’s okay in and of itself since that’s the only thing we can actually change going forward, it’s also important to consider that from the atmosphere’s perspective, it’s the total amount of GHGs emitted that determine the severity of climate change. CO2 has an atmospheric lifetime on the order of a thousand years, so all the CO2 we dumped into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution is still there.
Therefore, this tells us how much each country has actually contributed to climate change.
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The relevance is that every citizen of the UK currently enjoys a standard of living that is a direct result of that resource usage. So to answer your question, yes, everyone is responsible, unless they suddenly decide to go live the life of a hermit.