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Japan emits 8.5t CO2 per capita (2019), much less than the US (14.7t), though it's still worse than the UK (5.2t) or France (4.5t).
by yongjik 4y ago
Japan emits 8.5t CO2 per capita (2019), much less than the US (14.7t), though it's still worse than the UK (5.2t) or France (4.5t).
- oefrha 4y agoAnd they’ve been hovering around that and on a trajectory of slow decrease long before this SDG thing is “suddenly everywhere”, so I doubt SDG has anything to do with it. This vacuous SDG thing sounds like bureaucrats and corporatists finding something to do to justify their jobs. It’s like trying to refactor working code into using abstract class factory factories.
- yongjik 4y agoYou're probably right about that, but I'm just saying that "They kill dolphins!" is a low-effort remark, when America is doing much more damage to the ocean via CO2 emission.
- franciscop 4y agoThere are many axis of taking care of the environment, and CO2 emissions is fairly (but not completely) independent from killing dolphins in a cruel way. This unfortunately makes it so that comparing how environmentally friendly one country is from another is very tricky.
- joecool1029 4y agoTo be fair it's a resource poor (having only modest coal deposits) nation for electricity generation that idled most of their nuclear reactors after Fukushima. That greatly increases their carbon output.
- franciscop 4y agoIt's actually renewable-heavy, I don't know the details (which might be important here) but Japan is very rich in wind and water resources, so solar, eolic and hydro could be major players. If only there weren't usual typhoons and floods and earthquakes that could make those nonviable (that's why details might be important).