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China is approximately 40x the size of the UK, and has 20x the people. Using "the last 250 years" is not in any way a comparable term. The UK was emitting (in
by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
China is approximately 40x the size of the UK, and has 20x the people. Using "the last 250 years" is not in any way a comparable term.
The UK was emitting (in 2000) roughly what China is emitting today, 9.36 tonnes/capita then for the UK vs 9.24 tonnes/capita now for China. China is behind the UK on the curve from industrialisation to clean industrialisation but the "250 years" thing is just designed to present them in a bad light.
Neither of them are close to the USA, which is running at 13.8 tonnes/capita right now.