[orourke]

Because “carbon” in these conversations is a proxy to “stuff” as an important input to everything. Of course, the rich have more stuff. Interestingly, focusing on carbon allows for applying a moral dimension to having more stuff: it’s not only wrong to have more because I have less and don’t like that, but because you are hurting is all.

[llamaimperative]

No not really. Carbon emissions refers to carbon emissions which are put into our shared air and affect our shared environment.