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leonidasruptoday at 12:12 PM10 repliesview on HN

Who do you mean "we"? Look at the evolution of CO2 emisions in the past 40 years by region.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re...


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Epa095today at 12:20 PM

I find that the per capita graph is more informative https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...

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dtechtoday at 12:19 PM

In good faith I cannot see an argument here, it's either

Region X was first and reduced their emissions 10-20% so it's fine and it's region Y that's the problem, or

Region X is fine because they have less people, region Y should reduce even though they already have a fraction of per-capita emissions

Both seem like pretty shitty arguments

burkamantoday at 12:42 PM

I think "we" refers to "we human beings". That chart looks pretty similar to population growth by world region (with the notable exception of Africa). https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-regions-with-p...

KronisLVtoday at 12:31 PM

Oh hell yeah, EU is doing something right! I fear to think how the US stats have changed. And China is… alarming.

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c0nducktrtoday at 1:01 PM

Some people always try to push the blame onto someone else...

postflopclaritytoday at 12:18 PM

now look at it measured from consumption per capita ...

ajuctoday at 12:46 PM

WE buy stuff that WE oursourced to Asia and then WE blame them for producing it. WE also set the standard of living that is unsustainable if everybody on Earth achieve it.

What's your problem with the "we" word, again?

simgttoday at 12:21 PM

Asia is producing all of our shit. Also: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions

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