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> 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 ca
by 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.