• nrezcm@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      How is it not true? Per capital they are lower but that doesn’t mean much when you have over a billion people. I think a more accurate sentence would be most industrialized nations have awful awful climate impacts.

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        1 year ago

        It’s a bit disingenuous to blame a country for having high emissions when it has 10x the number of people

        That means it needs 10x the amount of electricity, vehicle fuel etc.

        By the same logic, the Vatican City is a world leader in climate policy.

        Should we start comparing China with the Americas and Europe combined? Because that’s a more like-for-like comparison

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          Which is why I said a more accurate sentence would be most industrialized nations have awful climate impact. Diluting their impact behind a per capita graph is misleading. Also out of all my travels in the world China has been the only country I could visibly see that impact without having traveled to it or even being super close. The morning chemical smog I’d see in Korea on a regular basis compares to nothing else I’ve seen and I’ve lived in some pretty dirty regions.