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If thats the yard stick you should boycott everything coming out of china, which is pretty much everything, since they are one of the largest polluters globally
by rikafurude21 1y ago
If thats the yard stick you should boycott everything coming out of china, which is pretty much everything, since they are one of the largest polluters globally.
- jamespo 1y agoif there's a reasonable alternative why not, there are plenty of reasonable alternative coding models
- zzzoom 1y agoNot even close https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita
- maleldil 1y agoThat's per-capita. China is by far the biggest polluter overall, and it is still increasing. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?country=CHN~USA~IND~GBR&Count=Per+country https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?country=CHN~USA~IND...
- argsnd 1y agoDoesn't really make sense in my opinion. Why boycott a specific group of people for their collective emissions when their individual emissions are lower than many others? The latter is the important metric, else you're simply punishing them for having a large population.
- didibus 1y agoWouldn't you expect the country with the most manufacturing and one of the biggest population to also have the biggest pollution? I feel you'd need to adjust the sum total by something, capita, or square footage or be more specific like does a manufacturing X in China pollute more than an equivalent one in the US, etc.
- briHass 1y agoHow about adjusted for GDP, which would measure efficiency of carbon use in output: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_intensity_of_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_in... China is still about double the US, and the US is lower than Canada.
- didibus 1y agoHum... GDP doesn't seem right to me. Not all goods and services involve the same process, some come with more pollution. For example, Nvidia will contribute to a big chunk of US GDP, but it only designs the chips, which won't have the same pollution impact as the country in which they'll have it manufactured.