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>California emits only 2 percent of global greenhouse gases What? That's huge! California does not have 2% of the world's population, not even close! Lookin
by rhaps0dy 11y ago
>California emits only 2 percent of global greenhouse gases
What? That's huge! California does not have 2% of the world's population, not even close!
Looking at it another way, all the more effect the regulations there will have.
- a3n 11y ago> California does not have 2% of the world's population Consider all the power required to support a Californian's life style, including his direct use and all the services and products that converge on him. That Red Bull can on his desk is probably not negligible, not when you factor in all the infrastructure required for it.
- Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 11y agoWhat does the number of people have to do with this? Industries contribute much more to emissions. (also not relevant, but California's current GDP is ~2.2T, which is around 3% of the total world GDP (75T)).
- Retric 11y agoA lot of California pollution is indirect, as in produced from factories outside of the state. Which makes GDP a terrible measure of pollution.
- arnarbi 11y agoI agree with you that's a strange statement. But also consider California's GDP is about 2-3% of the world GDP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
- patmcguire 11y agoWorld GDP is about $87.25 trillion and California GDP is about $2 trillion, so California has more than 2% of world GDP. You could make the case that that's a more important metric than population.
- peapicker 11y agoIf you look at GDP per person in the population, California is only 14th in the US ($58K per person -- Delaware at #1 is $112.K per person GDP), so they have room to more efficiently make that GDP per person than they do. Delaware does have a higher CO2 emission rate per capita, tho (nearly 50% more than California)
- jdmichal 11y ago> Delaware at #1 is $112.K per person GDP Is that real, or a side effect of the number of companies which are basically ghost-chartered in Delaware? > Delaware does have a higher CO2 emission rate per capita, tho (nearly 50% more than California) I wonder how much of that is due to increased heating necessary during winter...
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoIs some of that CO2 imaginary, traded corporation pollution-points?
- brobinson 11y agoNot sure what percentage are "ghost-chartered", but according to this article I read earlier [1] corporate fees cover over 25% of Deleware's budget. [1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/dole-and-other-companies-sour-on-delaware-as-corporate-haven-1438569507 http://www.wsj.com/articles/dole-and-other-companies-sour-on... Might need to Google that URL and click through to skip the paywall.
- emddudley 11y agoI've been wondering whether population is the right statistic to correlate greenhouse gas emissions with. Wouldn't it make more sense to compare it with a measure of productivity? Producing 2% of the world's greenhouse gases is not bad at all if California performs 2+% of the world's greenhouse gas-producing activities.
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