Re:Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
by FabHK on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:47PM
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That graph depicts cumulative (historical) emissions, which is interesting, but not pertinent to the question of how to fix up things for the future.
It is not "only" the West that is a problem here. The biggest current polluter is China. If you look at per capita data, you have among the biggest polluters the US, definitely, but also Russia, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Canada. That's not "the West". Per capita, China emits more than the EU.
Sure, "the West" needs to clean up its act (the US in particular), but this is without doubt a global problem.
It is not "only" the West that is a problem here. The biggest current polluter is China. If you look at per capita data, you have among the biggest polluters the US, definitely, but also Russia, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Canada. That's not "the West". Per capita, China emits more than the EU.
Sure, "the West" needs to clean up its act (the US in particular), but this is without doubt a global problem.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...