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Agreed, based off the following data [1]: India: 7% global emissions, 1.34B people China: 30% global emissions, 1.39B people USA: 15% global emissions, 327.2M p
by vzidex 7y ago
Agreed, based off the following data [1]:
India: 7% global emissions, 1.34B people
China: 30% global emissions, 1.39B people
USA: 15% global emissions, 327.2M people
EU-28: 9% of global emissions, 513.5M people
India and the EU handily demonstrate that you can have large populations with far less of a per-capita impact than other Western countries like the US, or other rapidly-developing countries like China.
What is also concerning is the rise of fascist rhetoric based on the idea that our population is too large - I've seen statements of the population being too large rapidly followed by pointing fingers at India/China and suggestions of reducing/controlling the population there.