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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by azangru on Friday January 03, 2020 @08:12AM (#21945542)
> United States per-capita CO2 emmisions are 17.5 tons per year vs China's 6.18

Does this mean we need to multiply China's values by 4.2 (1386 mln Chinese vs 327 mln Americans) to account for all those capitas? ;-)

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? by 0xcafecafe on Friday January 03, 2020 @08:57AM (#21945825)
Per capita is the only metric that makes sense for carbon emissions since the effects are not going to be confined to artificial nation boundaries. So no, no need to multiply anything.
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