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> Yeah, except that the US has reduced emissions more than any other country Starting from insanely high emission levels > and is highly competitive on a per
by audunw 8y ago
> Yeah, except that the US has reduced emissions more than any other country
Starting from insanely high emission levels
> and is highly competitive on a per-capita percentage basis.
No. That's just false.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
- paulddraper 8y ago??? Your link says in 2013 the U.S. was near its neighbor Canada on per capita carbon emissions. That's still double the EU. But that's also 6 years ago; the gap will have closed somewhat.
- sitkack 8y agoAnd Canada reflects the emission levels of rich Americans. Canada is no roll model on carbon emission.
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- wolco 8y agoCanada is a huge frozen country most of the year. Comparing warmer countries to Canada doesn't make sense emission wise.
- Zenst 8y agoDoes currently, but that's climate shift for you.
- wonthegame 8y agoYeah but look at our totals. It’s very low. Per capita it is bad. We are wasteful and an oil producing country but our population is spread out and we have a colder climate. Check out the breakdown and you’ll see transportation is the offender.
- rwj 8y agoCanada is not at all spherical...
- pierrebai 8y agoRead the central table, the data is from 2015. Every metrics shows the US is worse: total, per capita, per GDP. (The last two shows the US is more than twice as much polluting. I doubt thé US cut it's emmision by more than half since 2015. Other country are also not standing still. Germany vowed to cut off coal entirely in the next decades.)
- paulddraper 8y agoAlright, central table. So is @anc84 advocating for the embargo of Australia too, whose 2015 pollution is even higher than the United States?