I think the numbers for China are way too low. Considering how much pollution they generate, I suspect their carbon emissions are way higher than that of the US.
Agreed. Killing off everyone on the whole damned continent of Asia would do a lot to improve things, though the necessary shifting of manufacturing back to the non-Asia parts of the world would cause their carbon emissions to increase.
Honestly, the EU and the US can do everything they want to cut carbon emissions or save the Ozone Layer but unless they get China, India, and Pakistan completely on board (and they certainly won't), they'll get nowhere. In my neighboring compound, there's a carport with 40 or 50 bottles of R-22 stacked like cordwood, and R-22 is illegal in the EU and being phased out in North America. Here, though, they put it in AC units that burn through it like gasoline.
Well, 2 things there, 1) i show china emitting twice us emissions, and 2) pollution generally doesn't really signify on co2, pollution is usually due to bad practices, where co2 is straight energy consumption×fuel mix.
China burns coal for power. That generates a lot of carbon China also has billions of people. That also generates a lot of carbon. (and I bet they didn't figure the people into the numbers).
That is, in fact, what some Greens want: to exterminate a vast majority of the human race -- not including themselves, of course -- ostensibly to purify the planet.
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Honestly, the EU and the US can do everything they want to cut carbon emissions or save the Ozone Layer but unless they get China, India, and Pakistan completely on board (and they certainly won't), they'll get nowhere. In my neighboring compound, there's a carport with 40 or 50 bottles of R-22 stacked like cordwood, and R-22 is illegal in the EU and being phased out in North America. Here, though, they put it in AC units that burn through it like gasoline.
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So, i suspect that the number is close enough.
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China also has billions of people. That also generates a lot of carbon. (and I bet they didn't figure the people into the numbers).
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With tongue firmly in cheek:
http://chasemeladies.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-world-needs-donald-trump.html
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Meanwhile plants will . . . whoops, plants will also suffer under a nuclear winter and not drag down as much carbon. Needs some refinement.
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Genengineer carnivorous plants! Easy peasy.
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