Well it just seems odd to fold together industrial and Chinese emissions. Nationally and by sector are two totally different ways of dividing up emissions.

Anyway China is a major source of emissions and deserves criticism for that but it doesn’t seem very relevant overall.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Kbin_space_program @throws_lemy @LibertyLizard As pointed out elsewhere, it's quite hypocritical to point to China to reduce emissions generated by manufacturing stuff for the West.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was partially true more than a decade ago, since they could have had laws in place to prevent those emissions.

Now though they're more making things for themselves, and any attempt on their part to declare themselves a "developing country" is a sham.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Kbin_space_program @throws_lemy @LibertyLizard Or, you know, we could trace those emissions back to the source, which would land the blame squarely on the tons of US companies responsible.

Also, as an aside, why don't you compare per capita emissions, since China has > 3 times the population of the US?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Because the ecosystem doesn't care about pollution per capita.

Also, the reason the US is so high is because it refines most of the world's oil.

Same reason Canada is so high. Alberta, by itself, is more than half of Canada CO2 emissions.