So, are you stating that it's only the emissions from a select demographic that are bad/evil/planet destroying then?
No...jeez, I'll multi-quote since you seem to be having comprehension problems.
Now, the core issue is how much is emitted, and how much the sinks take up. Full stop. Any number above the uptake means the atmosphere becomes more opaque and retains more heat.
In the examples I gave you, the end result for both scenarios is, 5 fewer tonnes of heat trapping gas. That's called equivalence.
.... I can see the carbon exchange getting really complicated now.
Then you need to go back to watching Sesame Street.
No part of what I said should be complicated to anyone that understands concepts like which number is bigger than another, which is smallest, and which are the same.
That said, it's not me 'cutting' anything, this is simple physics... I assume that you have some degree of faith in the study of physics
Cut, misunderstanding, I don't care what you call it. Yes the physics is simple, five fewer tonnes of greenhouse gas, it doesn't matter how that result was achieved. The physics is quite clear on that, the universe doesn't react differently to emissions from fewer people versus fewer emissions from the same amount of people
when the radiative result is the same...
Since the rest is more of the same, I think I'll just leave it at that.
More CO2 per year is more plant food, I'm not ready to rule that as being a bad thing.
Do you know what the difference is between a C4 and C3 carbon fization by plants? In the latter case, higher temperatures and drought will erase gains made by more carbon dioxide. More CO2 does not necessarily mean more food. The plants utilizing the C3 carbon fixing pathways lose roughly 25-30% of the fixed carbon. The enzyme
RuBisCO (read the products paragraph in the section on Enzymatic activity) is responsible for two reactions, carboxylation, and oxegenation. When plants are stressed by heat and drought, more carbon is utilized by RuBisCo in the oxeganation pathway, losing more than the 25-30% of carbon I mentioned above.
If the world is growing more tropical plants, then yes, generally more CO2 means more plant food. In the developed world, where we grow temperate climate cultivars, the end result is far more uncertain, because of those other factors like droughts and heat stress.