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Re:Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will by josephcsible on Saturday January 01, 2022 @01:53PM (#29761360)
> You could split China into two countries with US-level emissions

Well first of all, two wouldn't suffice. It's at least three, and I think it might even be four. And with a bunch of mini-Chinas, there'd be more competition for where manufacturing happens, and it could drive emissions down the same way that breaking up a monopoly drives price down.

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Re:Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will by Stupulous on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:12AM (#29766040)
By Wikipedia's 2019 numbers (14 Gt China/6.6 Gt US) you'd need 2.12 mini-Chinas.
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Re:Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will by josephcsible on Sunday January 02, 2022 @03:18PM (#29773319)
The article I was remembering was https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57018837 in which case the result of the division is 2.45. But in any case, since you can't have a fraction of a country in this context, you would indeed need 3 for each one to have lower emissions than the US.
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