Responsibility measured in terms of each country's contribution to cumulative historical emissions. “As of 2015, the USA was responsible for 40% of excess global CO 2 emissions. The European Union (EU-28) was responsible for 29%. The G8 nations (the USA, EU-28, Russia, Japan, and Canada) were together responsible for 85%. Countries classified by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as Annex I nations (ie, most industrialised countries) were responsible for 90% of excess emissions. The Global North was responsible for 92%. By contrast, most countries in the Global South were within their boundary fair shares, including India and China (although China will overshoot soon). High-income countries have a greater degree of responsibility for climate damages than previous methods have implied.” In addition, there are “ the emissions that high-income countries have outsourced to lower-income countries since the rise of globalisation in the 1980s.” “These results illu...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51