That's a *huge* amount of energy being transferred to the atmosphere

Re:That's a *huge* amount of energy being transferred to the... by dukeyukey on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:04AM (#36293597)

> Most of the carbon footprint on the planet comes from the relatively low number of people in... Europe

That's not so true now, China emits as much CO2 per capita as Europe does, and quite a bit more than the greener European countries (e.g. France, Sweden, the UK). This remains even after adjusting for consumption rather than production.

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Re:That's a *huge* amount of energy being transferred to the... by myshpa on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:54AM (#36295600)

> That's not so true now

Maybe not now, I was talking about cummulative footprint. Even now China is a third of EU + UK + US together.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions (see 1950-1980)

It seems obvious that it's US & EU who made the China the polluting giant it is now.

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