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I wonder which country has the most emissions? ( China followed by US, and India ). If you adjust by per capita - then all the energy producing countries are
by DrScientist 3y ago
I wonder which country has the most emissions?
( China followed by US, and India ).
If you adjust by per capita - then all the energy producing countries are top - but then they are emitting for other people - Turkmenistan isn't producing all that energy for domestic consumption.
Easy to point fingers.
It's the consumers, not the producers per se that are the problem.
- kashunstva 3y ago> Turkmenistan isn't producing all that energy for domestic consumption > It's the consumers, not the producers per se that are the problem. Irrespective of which party is the proximate cause of energy extraction in Turkmenistan, the large volume leakage of methane according to the article is not an inevitable byproduct of oil drilling. What’s more, the incremental costs of controlling methane emissions are tiny. And finally, consumers couldn’t go re-light methane flares at the drill sites even if they wanted to.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoIn other words, Turkmen Oil is fucking up and not doing basic methane leak management. All of the discussions around who is a larger consumer are pointless; the point is that they could be doing more, and at a very small cost to them directly.
- RobotToaster 3y ago>If you adjust by per capita - then all the energy producing countries are top If you use consumption based accounting, Luxembourg comes out number 1, apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita#Consumption-based_emissions:_annual_carbon_dioxide_emissions_in_metric_tons_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
- h0l0cube 3y agoOur World in Data have an interactive map of it https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions