Rob Starkey -
I’m not sure the population growth idea is a serious problem. Surely an agreement would just pick an appropriate population level and fix per capita emissions at that number.
You may see no reason for US taxpayers to pay any other countries anything, but do you think US citizens are entitled to have higher emissions than anyone else? [assuming, obviously, that such things are definitely a 'problem'] Surely if it is a question of entitlement, everybody’s is the same? If so, there must be some point of convergence to aim at? I know it doesn’t sound good to American ears, but what other reasonable way is there to look at it?