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China emits less than half as much CO2 as the USA per capita, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions https://e
by bloak 7y ago
China emits less than half as much CO2 as the USA per capita, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
It's interesting to see that there are several countries that emit more per capita than the USA, including Canada and Australia. Maybe the USA should stop trading with those countries?
- papermachete 7y ago'per capita' is a manipulative and unproductive metric.
- redavni 7y agoChinese people exhale less CO2. Free speech causes global warming.
- ben_w 7y agoIs it worse than ‘per country’? The problem isn’t going to be changed one way or the other by, e.g., China breaking apart into 34 provinces, nor by the union of literally every nation into a world government. (Well, except for the economic impact of those scenarios). The optimal place to focus effort is wherever a marginal unit of effort has the most impact. I’m not aware of any research that estimates that, and while I won’t be surprised if some cities in China are more important targets of effort than some cities in the USA, I’d also expect a unit of intervention in a randomly selected city in the USA to be more effective than “the same”[0] intervention in a randomly selected city in China. [0] adjusted for exchange rates, etc.
- catalogia 7y agoIf only temperature per capita had meaning, CO2 per capita might matter.
- nkkollaw 7y agoLOL, per capita. How is that metric useful in any way, besides deceiving people and accuse other countries of being the bad guys? It's industry which pollutes, not people. That's why it's so pointless to blame plastic straws and other silly things like that. Maybe if we stopped buying things from communist China things would go better.