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Not even close https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita
by zzzoom 1y ago
Not 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.