"Fair" is a necessary but not sufficient precondition for cooperation, which itself is a necessary but not sufficient precondition for solving the problem.
It's also much easier to convince someone that "no more X for you" is fair if you have a cheaper and better alternative to X. We're getting there for that.
If the world was a democracy, the needs of the many would outweigh the needs of the few .
Countries are very arbitrary lines on a geopolitical map.
Take Europe and India, they have roughly similar landmass , number of people and linguistic diversity so why European states get their own measures and Indian states do not ?
If you don’t measure per capita , you are effectively seeing all humans are not equal, some have more rights and privileges than others , that is dangerously close to how slavery operated
