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Doesn't take into account transportation and heating with fossil fuels. This gets posted fairly regularly, but I'm not sure what the take-away is supposed to b
by antisthenes 5y ago
Doesn't take into account transportation and heating with fossil fuels.
This gets posted fairly regularly, but I'm not sure what the take-away is supposed to be. I think if you post something like this, you should at least prompt the discussion to start in some way, so that it isn't just a blank graph.
Yes, coal is dying as far as electricity generation goes. Has been for a decade.
- philipkglass 5y agoThe graph caption says "Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from the burning of fossil fuels for energy and cement production. Land use change is not included." Is the caption incorrect?
- sanjiwatsuki 5y agoThe metrics don't really change much if you account for CO2 emissions needed for production/transportation: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?country=~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?...