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The vast majority of the world is not accustomed to a car-forward culture like the slowly decreasing majority of the U.S. is.

Scarblac 5y ago
No, but it's primarily the US and other rich western countries that need to change. Those countries where few people drive a car to this day aren't the problem.
- FabHK 5y ago
  The top 5 CO2 emitters (2017) % of world emissions, emissions per capita [t/person/annum]: China 29.34% 7.7 United States 13.77% 15.7 European Union 9.57% 7.0 India 6.62% 1.8 Russia 4.76% 12.3 Japan 3.56% 10.4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
  - david_draco 5y ago
    This is misleading because it does not represent outsourced production nor accumulated emissions, which is related to building up wealth to a point where greener solutions can be afforded. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-region?stackMode=absolute https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-... The US is supposed to do more given the damage it has done, but has been and still is dragging its feet. Same applies to the EU.
    - spats1990 5y ago
      The parent also ranks the countries by % of world emissions rather than by emissions per capita, which tells a very different story.
    - FabHK 5y ago
      That graph depicts cumulative (historical) emissions, which is interesting, but not pertinent to the question of how to fix up things for the future. It is not "only" the West that is a problem here. The biggest current polluter is China. If you look at per capita data, you have among the biggest polluters the US, definitely, but also Russia, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Canada. That's not "the West". Per capita, China emits more than the EU. Sure, "the West" needs to clean up its act (the US in particular), but this is without doubt a global problem. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-region?stackMode=relative https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...

Scarblac 5y ago

No, but it's primarily the US and other rich western countries that need to change. Those countries where few people drive a car to this day aren't the problem.

FabHK 5y ago
The top 5 CO2 emitters (2017) % of world emissions, emissions per capita [t/person/annum]: China 29.34% 7.7 United States 13.77% 15.7 European Union 9.57% 7.0 India 6.62% 1.8 Russia 4.76% 12.3 Japan 3.56% 10.4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
- david_draco 5y ago
  This is misleading because it does not represent outsourced production nor accumulated emissions, which is related to building up wealth to a point where greener solutions can be afforded. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-region?stackMode=absolute https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-... The US is supposed to do more given the damage it has done, but has been and still is dragging its feet. Same applies to the EU.
  - spats1990 5y ago
    The parent also ranks the countries by % of world emissions rather than by emissions per capita, which tells a very different story.
  - FabHK 5y ago
    That graph depicts cumulative (historical) emissions, which is interesting, but not pertinent to the question of how to fix up things for the future. It is not "only" the West that is a problem here. The biggest current polluter is China. If you look at per capita data, you have among the biggest polluters the US, definitely, but also Russia, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Canada. That's not "the West". Per capita, China emits more than the EU. Sure, "the West" needs to clean up its act (the US in particular), but this is without doubt a global problem. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-region?stackMode=relative https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...