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Good news for China, bad news for US. But don't forget China still emit 16B compared to US who emit 6B tons of CO2 https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-ra
by Alifatisk 1y ago
Good news for China, bad news for US. But don't forget China still emit 16B compared to US who emit 6B tons of CO2
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/pollution-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/pollution...
- yodsanklai 1y agoEmissions impact the whole world, not only the country that emit them. And the relevant metric is not per country, but per inhabitant in this country.
- ACCount37 1y agoNot really. Otherwise, US could slash its "relevant metrics" by annexing Nigeria.
- Leary 1y agoExcept that does make sense because the new country would be the weighted average of the average CO2 contribution for both Americans and Nigerians.
- ACCount37 1y agoClearly, that means annexing Nigeria is the best way for US to reduce its GHG emissions. Just add poor people to your country! Per capita emission metrics HATE this one weird trick!
- triceratops 1y agoJeez the extent some people will go to not install solar.
- yongjik 1y agoI'm fine with that. So go ahead, annex Nigeria, you coward.
- triceratops 1y agoAnd China could slash the metrics you believe are "relevant" by dividing into 20 countries. It's time to stop talking and start doing. China is doing.
- notTooFarGone 1y agoSo tell me why are you using absolute numbers?
- gorwell 1y agoThose are the numbers that matter. Percentages are how you lie with statistics. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...
- lotsofpulp 1y agoGlobally, the total matters. By country, the per capita matters.
- _aavaa_ 1y agoDisagree. What matters is the absolute number, and the direction that number is going in.
- zzzoom 1y agoWhat matters is that the US' number keeps growing.
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- gorwell 1y agoIt hasn't. It's been down since 2007 despite increased population.
- triceratops 1y agoThe article is literally about how it grew this year.
- nerpderp82 1y ago
- haddr 1y agoadjust that for the population...
- Liwink 1y ago> But don't forget China still emit 16B compared to US who emit 6B tons of CO2 China has 1.4 billion people, while U.S. has 340 million people.
- closewith 1y agoAnd the US, like most of the West, had outsourced their most carbon intensive manufacturing.
- tonfa 1y agoAnd looking at historical emissions, US contributed 25% of all emissions vs China 15%.
- bialpio 1y agoPer capita is a better metric but it's worth noting that China is world's factory - it's easy to reduce emissions if you offshore a lot of your production elsewhere...
- nerpderp82 1y agoAnd China makes all of our stuff. Instead of putting tariffs on solar from China, we should have dropped a trillion dollars on it and put it everywhere.
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- bgnn 1y agoMost of Chinese emissions are due to the production of American products.
- linotype 1y agoNot just American products.
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- buyucu 1y agoChina has a lot more people than the US. In fact, the per capita CO2 production is way more in the US.