But you do realize that if every country on earth would reach the same industrialization level as the EU or the US, the global emissions would be through the roof? At this point in time, when there is enough knowledge about the effects of emmissions on the global climate, as well as alternative sources of energy and cleaner technologies, there should be a slower and cleaner process of industrialization in the less developed world.
Why build new coal power plants when theree are cleaner sources of energy available?
But why is nobody talking about the elephant in the room, which is birth rates? Europe has a declining population, with a very low birth rate. On the other hand, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and especially most African countries continue to expand their population.
You can’t speak about per capita emissions when some countries increase their capita number. If those countries want higher per capita emissions, they should start to reduce their birth rates, as the Europeans did.
This is why countries like China, Japan or South Korea are not such a big issue when it comes to long term emissions, because their populations are declining, and their emissions are most likely to fall in the future.
But African countries, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, those are the real problems, as they both increase their population and their per capita emissions. Their emmissions have nowhere to go but up, and this makes a mockery of the efforts made by other countries to reduce their emmissions.