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Re:Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under i... by nasut on Saturday April 30, 2022 @04:48AM (#31214429)
Well that would be 12kWh (EU) vs. 1.8kWh (India). Multiply by population 447M * 12 kWh = 5364 BkWh vs. 1360M * 1.8 kWh = 2448 BkWh from oil. So yes, EU is spewing twice the co2 from oil. That said, the EU has probably the strongest co2 emissions reduction programs out there atm. The EU for example reduced its co2 emissions by 19% 2019->2020. India’s co2 emissions OTOH grows 4-5% each year. So in that sense they are shooting themselves in the foot. Of course there are multitudes of things to consider (GDP, standard of living etc.) so blamegame is a bit misplaced.

For blame: all this pales in comparison to the US, which consumes over twice the oil per capita (27 kWh/capita) vs. EU https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-oil?tab=table which make 27 kWh * 334M = 9000 BWh from oil alone and is barely reducing their total co2 emmissions. They reduced it by a whopping 1% 2009-2019

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Re:Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under i... by hagen2022 on Saturday April 30, 2022 @05:21AM (#31214551)
One can always compare the per capita and blame the rich world for many issues. This is nice for a debate.

But at the end, poor + middle class of India suffer due to this. Sure the rich world ruined environment, but that cannot be reason to say India can do similar. The first to get affected will be the poor world (yes, incl. India) and then only the poor people in the west.

I understand this is a sensitive issue, as my wife is from India, and people do not like complaining about India (especially they do not like foreign news organisations like BBC/CNN/NYtimes posting negative news).

Please start thinking as global citizens (heck your people are running Twitter, Google, MS).

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Re:Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under i... by eklavya on Saturday April 30, 2022 @09:36AM (#31215982)
The problem is that you are cut off from the reality. The poor has to live and that means we need to have cheap energy. Get off the high horse and maybe engage with your governments to understand why nuclear power is still out of reach for developing nations. Forget about sharing green power tech.
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