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In other news, world oil consumption is at record highs at 101.5 million barrels of oil per day. Thats 2 liters (large coke bottle) of oil per person in the wo
by londons_explore 3y ago
In other news, world oil consumption is at record highs at 101.5 million barrels of oil per day.
Thats 2 liters (large coke bottle) of oil per person in the world per day, and when burned turns into 3000 liters of CO2 (about the volume of a large couch).
If everyone produced a couch-size piece of any other kind of junk each day, within a week the streets would be jammed with couches. But because it's invisible gas, life goes on as if we're not making a huge mess.
- cm2012 3y agoEmissions are dropping like a rock though in the US and EU.
- londons_explore 3y agoMaybe so, but worldwide they're still going up. If the whole world wants a quality of life equal to the US, emissions will go up a lot. A US person uses 13 MWh of electricity per year, while the world average is 3 MWh. The difference is even bigger when comparing other energy sources.
- hollandheese 3y agoMore like emissions are being moved to other countries so the US and EU can claim their emissions are dropping like a rock. When a US company moves production out of the US to China, suddenly the emissions become China's problem.
- cm2012 3y agoThis has been looked into and it's not a substantial part of the drop.