Yes, but the discussion was about whether Mississippi pays higher social costs than Europe. This has nothing to do with how much C02 Mississippi itself releases.
GHG emissions are an economic externality so vast that they're driving the planet's climate into crisis. Sooner or later those costs will be internalized one way or another. In the meantime, the cost of living in places like Mississippi that have extremely high per capita emissions benefits from a huge artificial subsidy that isn't being taken into account.
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Yes, but the discussion was about whether Mississippi pays higher social costs than Europe. This has nothing to do with how much C02 Mississippi itself releases.
GHG emissions are an economic externality so vast that they're driving the planet's climate into crisis. Sooner or later those costs will be internalized one way or another. In the meantime, the cost of living in places like Mississippi that have extremely high per capita emissions benefits from a huge artificial subsidy that isn't being taken into account.