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Not to downplay, but when we peak, we’re long past peak per capita, so there’s hope that combined with peak population we would be on a path of increasing decre
by wjnc 3y ago
Not to downplay, but when we peak, we’re long past peak per capita, so there’s hope that combined with peak population we would be on a path of increasing decrease. Half life of 120 years of athmosperic CO2 doesn’t make it an easy century. But which century was?
- jcranmer 3y agoWorld CO₂ per capita emissions have probably already peaked; at the very least, it's been roughly flat for the past decade or so: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=chart&country=OWID_WRL~CHN~IND~BRA~NGA~European+Union+%2828%29~OWID_NAM~PAK~IDN https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
- rr808 3y agoYes a decade roughly flat per capita but number of people has risen 10% in that time.
- mschuster91 3y agoUnfortunately, it's not just CO2 that has an effect on climate... there's also other gases, particularly methane, that are relevant for climate change. And with the current warming going on, there will be not "just" the methane emissions from fermentation, cow farms and leaking natural gas pipelines, but also a ton of methane from currently thawing Russian permafrost, or methane clathrate deposits (which alone are estimated to hold more carbon than all other sources of fossil fuels combined).