If we want to make meaningful progress on climate change it is *essential* that people stop reporting on raw, national-level GHG figures and shift to fair share accounting.

Here is a metaphor to help explain why (1/n)

Imagine all the world gets its drinking water from a single aquifer, and we are drinking it faster than it can recharge. It is going to run out. Reporting this in a raw fashion would be to say what percent of the total each nation drinks (2/n)

But this level of comparison is invalid because nations have dramatically different populations! If we care about ensuring everyone has access to a fair share of water, we have to figure out what the fair share is, and ask, where are people taking more than they should? (3/n)

Here they are, side by side.

Note these are drawn to roughly approximate the actual GHG figures reported in
@jasonhickel's recent paper. (4/n) https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519620301960#fig1

I know I've been harping on this all week, but if we approach climate change as if we only are causing 15% of the problem, when we are in fact causing 40% the entire enterprise could be one of the greatest drivers of global inequity we've ever seen (Fig from the paper above (5/n)

I urge all the climate scientists and journalists and activists out there to start reporting on climate change, and pushing for climate solutions, that reflect this more just understanding of the problem. (6/n)

We've already seen @PresElectBiden using the 15% number to downplay the importance of the US's leadership here. Given that his presidency is poised to be the most progressive we've ever seen on climate, we need to push for more or we'll never solve this (7/7)