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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (5 children)

India and China are a couple of the biggest polluters. They also just happen to be in an area that will be one of the hardest hit, especially with their size of their population.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Let's look at the data, shall we?

  • the top 4 planet heating polluters of 2022 are China, India, the USA and the EU ... responsible for 82% of emission in 2022
  • China may be the biggest emitter overall, but the average American is responsible for nearly twice as much climate pollution as the average person in China Source
  • historically the USA is the top CO² polluter ever, contributing over 400 billion tonnes since 1751 ... more than twice what China has contributed
  • the EU is second to the USA at 300 billion tonnes since 1751 Source
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sure it's always the same discussion with historical pollution. It's cool, nice point, whatever, but we've got to stop warming NOW, not let every country in the world catch up to a couple of centuries of pollution accumulated by developed nations.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile the US has hit record oil extraction and natural gas exports this year. Big load of good developed nations are doing.

[–] AA5B 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah that’s gotta stop

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

America knew in the 70's there was going to be problems and did nothing to stop it.

Yelling at other nations who were simply trying to catch up with the standard the US set is pointless.

[–] AA5B 2 points 10 months ago

It’s way too late to say “what about …”. We can’t afford to let the yahoos delay us by saying that and it’s too late to try to defend it in fairness. Really the only fair option is for developed countries to invest in renewable energy worldwide: coal might be cheaper in the short term but let’s help you build out solar

[–] Cogency 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They are the biggest producers, but that is because most of the world places their production in China and India. America is the biggest consumer of those products.

[–] Eyelessoozeguy 1 points 10 months ago

It really is the blame game isnt it? Like is it western world fault for buying those goods and the emissions from their production. Or is it the place that allowed those goods to be made there with those emissions? If it wasnt produced would america buy them? If there wasnt american demand would india and/or China produce them?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

China is definitely not one of the highest polluters per capita. And that's also taking into the fact that most of the Western world is produced there.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But it is the second biggest polluter overall.

You don’t get to pretend that doesn’t count for anything because Xi and his buddies steal from their citizens.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

China is also blasting through their Paris commitments like they're nothing. It's actually absurd how much they're going to beat their Paris commitments by.

Even as China builds new supercritical coal plants, they're tanking utilization of existing coal plants to the point where peak fossil fuel use (according to the IEA) could happen THIS YEAR.

[–] AA5B 5 points 10 months ago

I don’t know if you’re attempting to play the fairness card with current emissions while ignoring historical and ignoring per capita but no one’s buying that here.

Assuming everyone is only in it for their own greedy short term gain without care for everyone else

  • US can handle it. Sucks for the rest of the world
  • China is racing for renewables, EVs, rail. They’re going to beat their own record at transitioning a huge economy with huge people
  • India is going to struggle. They already have problems with climate, lack of water, over population, and poverty. They don’t want to obstruct growth by investing in renewable energy, but their own climate, their own people will be among the hardest hit. Now the solution is buying air conditioners for all those people? It may be fair but it’s too late and they can’t afford the cost to their own climate