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Carbonated beverages are a red herring. This page[1] says a can of soda has 2.2g of CO2. If every single person in the world (population 7.125B) drinks 10 can
by yongjik 12y ago
Carbonated beverages are a red herring. This page[1] says a can of soda has 2.2g of CO2. If every single person in the world (population 7.125B) drinks 10 cans of coke every day for a year, we will be using 63 Mt of CO2.
Mankind emitted 33615 Mt of CO2 in 2010[2].
[1] http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/9067/what-is-the-carbon-dioxide-content-of-a-soda-can-or-bottle http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/9067/what-is-th...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...
(Edit: sorry I at first miscalculated the result to be 6.3 Mt.)
- LanceH 12y agoI only intended to point out it is possible to reduce CO2 emissions by recycling it, even it the end product releases the same amount of CO2. I don't know that we produce CO2 for CO2, or where the numbers lie. Just that the prior post said it gets released anyway, so how can it be an improvement?