Ah, the old per capita argument. I used to wield it like a sharp knife myself—"India's share is tiny, look at the emissions per person!" But cumulative totals are the heavy bamboo baskets already woven, and ours are filling faster now. The weight of new bricks and roads here in Meghalaya adds to a global pile we didn't start.
I see it when I buy bamboo—the price climbs because demand from big new buildings is cumulative, not per basket. My small workshop's new needs, added to everyone else's, change the whole forest. So I can't in good faith point only at the West's old debt while our new threads weave the same pattern.
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