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Yup, this is exactly the issue here. Lower CO2 emission, etc. is lower in developed countries because they have off-shored their production. Less developed coun
by piokoch 5y ago
Yup, this is exactly the issue here. Lower CO2 emission, etc. is lower in developed countries because they have off-shored their production. Less developed country (like post-communistic Eastern and Central Europe countries) cannot do that, so they will the one who would pay for all climatism ideas. And those ideas looking good on paper are mostly dumb, as they don't really decrease CO2 emission, just move it elsewhere for those who are wealthy enough.
Looking and Carbon Tracker is pretty eye opening, if ones check how many coal based plants are planned in Asia. Funnily enough, Carbon Tracker estimates that 92% of those plants will be uneconomic, so, in theory China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Japan want to shoot their own foot for some crazy reason. My guess is that Carbon Tracker estimates are not that great...
- ksdale 5y agoI think he explicitly says in the post that China emits more carbon per capita after accounting for carbon offshoring.
- ernopp 5y agoYep, accounting for carbon offshoring lowers the difference (US emissions gain 7% if you count consumption not just production, and China's lose 14%) but it still holds that China emits more per capita. https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2