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Logically, China can be the largest polluter in absolute numbers while still not even above Canada, US, Japan, Germany on pollution per capita, considering the
by hcarvalhoalves 4y ago
Logically, China can be the largest polluter in absolute numbers while still not even above Canada, US, Japan, Germany on pollution per capita, considering the massive population. You don't need to put the data integrity in check over this fact, even though you only provided anecdotal evidence instead of numbers.
But ok, let's ignore China. We don't need to focus on China to support the argument that blaming pollution on developing nations is disingenuous.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?locations=US-DE-JP-CA-ES-FR-AU-BR-IN-PH-MX&most_recent_value_desc=true https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...
Pollution per capita paints a different picture from the common narrative: there's still an order of magnitude difference between so called developed nations and others, and even between developed nations the gap is large – the avg. US citizen still pollutes 3x more than a Spanish citizen.
Supporting the narrative that developing nations are polluting the world, while simultaneously not rethinking your consumption habits is a double-standard.