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Re:A critical step to reduce climate change by sampo on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @06:17AM (#19917935)
European Union: 6.4 tCO2 per capita per year

China: 7.5

And EU is about 500 million people.

Source: 2014 numbers from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/en.atm.co2e.pc

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Re:A critical step to reduce climate change by NeedMoreTea on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @06:44AM (#19918091)
All that stuff the EU and US buys - where's it made?

It counts toward China's emissions total. Whilst having reduced EU or US contribution comparatively speaking. We globalised manufacturing emissions, and most of them ended up in China.

The simple fact is no one can claim their halo - everyone, everywhere has a part in the solution, and we can find failings to criticise everywhere too.

Maybe Orkney got closest to their get out of jail card, but they're tiny.

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Re:A critical step to reduce climate change by js8 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @06:59AM (#19918164)
> All that stuff the EU and US buys - where's it made?

Not that I disagree, but it is not just Europeans' choice to buy from China, but also Chineses' choice not to sell.

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