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In the UK for example the electricty usage has gone up from 192 TWh to 300 TWh, which is not great but not 4x either. The increase is mostly down to the develop
by adam-a 8y ago
In the UK for example the electricty usage has gone up from 192 TWh to 300 TWh, which is not great but not 4x either. The increase is mostly down to the developing nations around the world. So we'd have to go back the 1950s to see a 4x reduction (73 TWh in 1956).
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/historical-electricity-data https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/historic...
- kungtotte 8y agoYet if you look at the data, western countries are responsible for way more carbon per capita than the rest of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita#/media/File%3ACO2_per_capita_per_country.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...