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> It was the realisation that there is now nowhere to hide from the terrible truth. Sure there is: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/26/senate-james

• commandlinefan 7y ago
  Oh, here we go: China and India are responsible for 90% of the climate change that we're worried about, but let's blame the Republicans in the U.S. senate for it anyway.
  • karl_schlagenfu 7y ago
    Didn't Trump and the republicans just recently pull the US out of the Paris agreement?
  • Aperocky 7y ago
    It's funny because at least China and India acknowledge the full scale of the climate change.
  • _Microft 7y ago
    China's per-capita emissions are also unsustainably high (~ 7t/year and citizen) but Americans emit about 2.3 times per year and capita. Saving the same, absolute, amount of emissions will certainly be easier when it is a lower fraction of the total emissions (i.e. it's easier to avoid e.g. 1/16th ~= 6% of your emissions than 1/7th ~= 14% (that's 1 ton saved per capita and year in both cases, the former in the US, the latter in China)). https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
  • tzs 7y ago
    You are overlooking that emissions accumulate, so you need to look to emissions over time, not just year to year, when determining how responsible each country is. The US is around 29% of cumulative emissions, followed by the EU at around 26%. Russia is around 8%, and China a little behind that. India is around 2%.