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Each person in the US uses significantly more energy than each person in China. As a nation, China has more people but use less energy per person. We (the U.S.)
by cududa 3y ago
Each person in the US uses significantly more energy than each person in China. As a nation, China has more people but use less energy per person. We (the U.S.) should work on reducing our per person usage.
How in the world does your example/ analogy apply to this in any way
- Clubber 3y ago>How in the world does your example/ analogy apply to this in any way If a nuclear exchange happens, it doesn't matter what the per capita nuclear warhead statistic is, it just matters the total number of detonations. Warming is the same, the per capita CO2 emissions isn't important (other than for shaming purposes), it's the total emissions. Total emissions is what drives warming, not per capita emissions. You seem to want to give China a pass because their CO2 per capita is lower than the US even though their total emissions is more than double, which kinda proves my point. Qatar has the highest per capita emissions in the world, but they are 40th in total emissions. Drastically lowering their emissions will have very little effect on warming. https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/ https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...
- cududa 3y agoThat’s like saying the amount of calories someone consumes is irrelevant to their weight. I’m not giving China a pass. If anything, we need to prepare for a world where developing nations might meet the same standard of living we have in the US, their emissions per capita will increase
- Clubber 3y agoUsing your analogy, your strategy is to stop eating candy bars, but it's ok to eat 5x the calories of a single candy bar in broccoli because broccoli per item is fewer calories. That's obviously flawed because it's the total amount of calories, not the calories in any particular food.
- sprkv5 3y agoWhy would some people get to have a higher budget for CO2 emissions but not others? If you want to say that every drop doesn't count, that's a red flag in your argument and a slippery slope. Inflated per-capita emissions is an indicator of inefficiencies.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoA substantial amount of the Chinese population lives in extreme poverty too, so surely that skews their per capita emissions. Maybe America should just have a population boom. Double the population but refuse to provide power and infrastructure to the new half of the population, make them live subsistence lifestyles. Boom, per capita emissions cut substantially