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>The carbon footprint of the average New Yorker is among the smallest in the world Where does that come from? I struggle to see how any person living in the fi
by Loocid 4y ago
>The carbon footprint of the average New Yorker is among the smallest in the world
Where does that come from? I struggle to see how any person living in the first world could be amongst those with the smallest carbon footprint.
- karmelapple 4y agoI was also curious. Looks like a typical New Yorker has about 30% less than an average US citizen [1] [2]. But it’s not less than, say, someone living off the land without electricity and subsistence farming. Maybe among smallest in the world for a large city? 1. https://www.livescience.com/13772-city-slicker-country-bumpkin-smaller-carbon-footprint.html https://www.livescience.com/13772-city-slicker-country-bumpk... 2. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/mar/23/city-dwellers-smaller-carbon-footprints https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/mar/23/city-dwe...
- Tarrosion 4y agoI think your source [1] is directionally correct but very wrong on the numbers. (It's also a decade old, but that doesn't explain these errors.) For example, it says (last sentence) that Americans average 6 tons per person per year. It's actually around 15 [2]. Also, the densest urban cores have per household (and person) carbon emissions ~half the national average. Here's a recent NYT [3]. 2. https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-states?country=~USA#per-capita-how-much-co2-does-the-average-person-emit https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-states?country... 3. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/13/climate/climate-footprint-map-neighborhood.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/13/climate/clima...