Sino-American Climate Deal?

[Maximus]

Is there any incentive to be above average?

[Jacob]

I'm on board mongers.  Write up the treaty.

I'm confused. Weren't you objecting to per capita emissions used at the metric at the beginning of this thread?

[Admiral Yi]

I'm confused. Weren't you objecting to per capita emissions used at the metric at the beginning of this thread?

I was objecting to allocating the right to pollute on a per capita basis.  In the monger system there is no allocation.

[crazy canuck]

Is there any incentive to be above average?

People tend to notice you more.

[Maximus]

So, no?

[The Minsky Moment]

It's not clear to me why the large population countries should get a pass on producing such large populations.

There may be something to this but it would be hard to blame PRC.  They have been notoriously aggressive about limiting POP growth.

[Valmy]

That was always Manmohan Singh's line whenever challenged on emissions by Western journalists - 'I vow our emissions will never exceed the United States' - per capita.'

And it's a fair point.

Well here is hoping someday we make that vow wrong.

[crazy canuck]

So, no?

It depends on whether one wishes to be noticed.