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I'm still wrapping my head around the meaning of those overshoot days. A person's ecological footprint is a multifaceted thing for which I think a single numbe
by mac01021 6y ago
I'm still wrapping my head around the meaning of those overshoot days.
A person's ecological footprint is a multifaceted thing for which I think a single number cannot necessarily provide a very meaningful summary.
But here's some other data, that considers only CO2 emissions:
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emissions https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emi...
It groups by country rather than income level but, reading between the lines, it seems to me almost certain that the bottom 85% (in income) of people emit more than half of the global total.
BTW it is important to consider that a large fraction of the emissions from countries like China and India are in the service of consumption in wealthy western countries. But, I googled, and even in a famously export-heavy country like China, exports only account for 17% of the GDP.