Shue contends that wealthier countries should now take up an extra part of the global burden to reduce emissions and face climate change. His first claim in support of this is that wealthier countries should do extra to make up for the extra emissions of the past. Some of these emissions are far in the past, some are from the last few decades.   Does it make sense to hold someone, or a country, responsible for past actions performed when they didn't know about the consequences?

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