alt Hacker NewsChina 12 billion tons CO2 and steady, USA 6 billion tons CO2 and falling.
US bad, China very bad.
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China population is 4 times of US and a lot of CO2 there comes from US outsourcing energy-intensive production.
China is doing so while western countries delegated a lot of its manufacturing to China though.
The fact that US emissions are not going down shows that something is really really wrong there.
Europe claiming that its emissions are going down is deceptive as taking into account its share of emission in China would paint a different picture.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108292
China falling actually.
> USA 6 billion tons CO2 and falling
You're literally commenting on an article about it increasing.
Now do cumulative over past century, then account for US consumption of goods now produced in China.
Try per capita
per capita?
This kind of denial prevents any solution for global warming.
- USA emits much more per Capita
- CO2 accumulates in atmosphere, so you must account for emissions since the country industrialized
- USA sent it's polluting industries to China and buy the final products
The AA motto goes well: The first step is to admit you have a problem