The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try

Re:The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s ... by MagnumOpus on Thursday January 28, 2021 @05:49AM (#25940389)

> The US ans Europe with far smaller populations have significantly greater climate footprints than China

That was true twenty years ago. After two decades of decarbonisation in the west and the opposite in China, China emits far more CO2 than the US and the EU taken together.

And even per capita, China has been emitting more than the EU for the last 5 years or more. (Yes, the US emissions per capita are still ridiculous.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

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Re:The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s ... by cudgy on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:13AM (#25954250)

It wasn’t “decarbonization” that caused the shift, it was the “deconstruction” of the Western manufacturing complex.

China assumed the environmental pollution of the previously significant manufacturing industry of the United States and other countries that succumbed to the short-sighted leaders of manufacturing companies who were riding the globalist wave of the last 30-40 years.

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