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I remember politicians where I live congratulating themselves on meeting some set of CO2 targets a few years ago. The reality is, we lost most of our manufactur
by version_five 5y ago
I remember politicians where I live congratulating themselves on meeting some set of CO2 targets a few years ago. The reality is, we lost most of our manufacturing sector, so energy and fuel use went down naturally. This chart has no meaning without some kind of supply chain adjustment to account for where people get the stuff they consume.
- xadhominemx 5y agoNot true. People have done the math and our emissions do not change that much if you do it by end product consumption vs production. https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
- version_five 5y agoInteresting thanks. I'm curious what the intuition is for why. My apparently wrong intuition is that if we're importing all our goods, we're incurring the emissions associated with their production + transportation in other places.
- xadhominemx 5y agoA lot of emissions are from transport, electricity production, cement production, and heating; none of those are offshore And in terms of manufacturing, while a lot of the labor intensive (but more emissions light) manufacturing jobs have gone overseas due to lower wages, most heavy industry (chemicals, etc) has remained onshore because those products are bulky