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China and India emit far more CO2 than we do.

• fsflover 5y ago
  So what?
• dsauerbrun 5y ago
  per Capita?
  • rsj_hn 5y ago
    per capita isn't a useful metric. Imagine if you are China and your population is declining, but your GDP is still going up so your per-capita CO2 is going up. That's not fair for them. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?locations=CN https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location... At the same time, if you are a developing country and your GDP is going up, then your absolute emissions will also go up. That's not fair, either. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.KT?locations=CN https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.KT?location... So you look at emissions per dollar of GDP to measure how efficiently you are producing. This is why China's own CO2 commitments are expressed as Kg per GDP. This is what they are targeting to decline, it's what they set policy around, and it's how they publicly measure their own progress. So let's use their own preferred metric: China's CO2 per GDP is ~.47 and dropping For the US it's .24 and also dropping India is .27 -- almost the same as the U.S. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PP.GD?locations=IN-CN-US https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PP.GD?locat...
• marcosdumay 5y ago
  China yes, India no. Also, "far" isn't a description you should use. The China emissions relate to the US about the same way the US emissions relate to the entire EU. Besides, any comparison that does not take the population into account is dishonest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...