TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal

Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by ClumsyPilot on Saturday August 01, 2020 @11:55PM (#24026207)

Which means that they emit much less per person. Or should countries be compared with no refrerence to their population, in which case Saudi Arabia is doing great?

Additionally, USA has had decades of relative prosperity to clean up its emissions, but did nothing.

Meanwhile China has more electric busses than the rest of the world combined, more hifgh-speed raio than the rest of the world combined, lead the world in investment in renewables and nuclear and are on track to meet their Paris accord commitment, unlike US.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by Grimm1 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:48AM (#24028672)

Looking at it per population is kind of ridiculous when it's very obviously corporations and manufacturing responsible for most green house gasses. The average person barely makes a difference both in regards to pollution, resource consumption and plastics.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by ClumsyPilot on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:58PM (#24031689)

You have a point, but population is still the key metric. Corporatuons are, after all, made up of people. Whether those people produce emissions in their private life, or in their jobs.

Furthermore this is a production based accounting of CO2, if you instead do consumption-based accounting of CO2 then you will see a dramativally more savage picture.

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