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    Under genuine atmospheric scarcity, equal per capita shar... — Carmelics
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    Supports→If all current and future persons are entitled to equal per capita greenhouse gas emissions, each person's share would be close to zero.

    Under genuine atmospheric scarcity, equal per capita shares converging toward zero is not a reductio but a precise quantification of how severely past overconsumption has foreclosed future entitlements.

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    Entitlements(as things nationalists believe nations possess)
    Things a person or group has a right to receive or do; legitimate claims or deserved privileges.
    Quantification(logic)
    The part of a statement that specifies how many things you're talking about—words like 'all,' 'some,' or 'none'.
    atmospheric scarcity(environmental ethics)
    A situation where a shared resource (in this case, the atmosphere and its capacity to absorb emissions) is running out or becoming critically limited, so there's not enough for everyone to use as much as they want.
    foreclosed(ethics and responsibility)
    Cut off or made impossible; closed off from future possibilities due to past decisions or actions.
    per capita(distributive justice)

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    Per person—a way of dividing something equally among all individuals in a group.
    reductio(as used in logic)
    Short for 'reductio ad absurdum'—a way of proving something is wrong by showing that believing it leads to ridiculous or impossible conclusions.

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