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> The US ans Europe with far smaller populations have significantly greater climate footprints than China That was true twenty years ago. After two decades of
by MagnumOpus 6y ago
> The US ans Europe with far smaller populations have significantly greater climate footprints than China
That was true twenty years ago. After two decades of decarbonisation in the west and the opposite in China, China emits far more CO2 than the US and the EU taken together.
And even per capita, China has been emitting more than the EU for the last 5 years or more. (Yes, the US emissions per capita are still ridiculous.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
- cudgy 6y agoIt wasn’t “decarbonization” that caused the shift, it was the “deconstruction” of the Western manufacturing complex. China assumed the environmental pollution of the previously significant manufacturing industry of the United States and other countries that succumbed to the short-sighted leaders of manufacturing companies who were riding the globalist wave of the last 30-40 years.