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Most of the carbon footprint on the planet comes from the relatively low number of people in the US and Europe. Not having kids and consuming like crazy won't
by myshpa 3y ago
Most of the carbon footprint on the planet comes from the relatively low number of people in the US and Europe.
Not having kids and consuming like crazy won't save anything.
https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2 https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2
Who has contributed most to global CO2 emissions?
(Don't forget we've outsourced our manufacturing to China)
https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-worst-places-in-the-world-hardest-hit-2021-10?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-worst-places-...
Countries contributing the least to the climate crisis are feeling the worst of its effects
- dukeyukey 3y ago> Most of the carbon footprint on the planet comes from the relatively low number of people in... Europe That's not so true now, China emits as much CO2 per capita as Europe does, and quite a bit more than the greener European countries (e.g. France, Sweden, the UK). This remains even after adjusting for consumption rather than production.
- myshpa 3y ago> That's not so true now Maybe not now, I was talking about cummulative footprint. Even now China is a third of EU + UK + US together. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-region?stackMode=absolute https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions (see 1950-1980) It seems obvious that it's US & EU who made the China the polluting giant it is now.
- ForHackernews 3y ago> Most of the carbon footprint on the planet comes from the relatively low number of people in the US and Europe. > Not having kids and consuming like crazy won't save anything. Most of the people on this site are American or European. You are the problem you name.
- myshpa 3y agoI'm aware.