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Re:Most people don't realize how much progress we've made on... by dragonwriter on Monday December 04, 2023 @12:35PM (#38520250)
> China is producing more CO2 in a week than many more countries in a year.

Well, yeah, China is more than 52 times the population of many other countries, so that's hardly surprising.

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Re:Most people don't realize how much progress we've made on... by corethree on Monday December 04, 2023 @10:11PM (#38526635)
Right. It needs to be measured per capita.

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

From here it's easily seen that An individual in the US is on average one of the worst offenders while an individual from China is doing extremely well.

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