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USA (along with the rest of the western world) is a huge cumulative emitter: https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2 https://ourworldindata.org/
by Tade0 8mo ago
USA (along with the rest of the western world) is a huge cumulative emitter:
https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2 https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2
But a distant second in per year emissions:
https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/ https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by...
The EU, not listed here, sits between the US and India at about 3.05 billion tonnes.
It's all up to China, which took over a huge chunk of the world's manufacturing. And all up to us, buying Chinese products.
- bspinner 8mo agoThe EU isn't listed, because the EU is not a country. Sorting the table by "per capita" is much more interesting IMHO.
- triceratops 8mo agoThe cumulative emissions represent the PPM increase today. So that's a very relevant statistic. I don't know why you're ignoring it. China also reduced their emissions last year while the US increased them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108292 Stop pointing fingers. Start working.
- piloto_ciego 8mo agofiguring out who to blame is not the problem here, we need to figure out how to fix it.