I have seen an uptick in posts about climate change, just a quick reminder of our place and irrelevance in it. Yes we should do everything we can to fight and reverse it, don’t act as any EU country is particularly responsable for it.
For context we are emitting the same as in 1967. And reduced emissions for decades.
It’s interesting to see the decline…
However, for this to make any sense, we would need to compare these numbers with Population Number, or contamination per Million people?
Always think of this post when u try to stick ur paper straw into a capri sun.
Last generation better help out at the chinese protests.
Fascinating graph, thanks for sharing it. I will feel a bit less guilty tonight.
Yes, our emissions peaked in the 90s. Believe it or not but so did the US’. If we all had governments with even the slightest bit of foresight like the Swedes have, we would have taken climate change seriously in the 70s already.
If something is produced in China but sold on the European market, then are the CO2 emissions counted as Chinese or European?
And how do they count it, when the EU exports it‘s waste to other regions where they get burned?
The number of consumption-based emissions is a much better measure. Europe loves to outsource resource extraction to other countries, despite having plenty of its own (such as gas and lithium).
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I have seen an uptick in posts about climate change, just a quick reminder of our place and irrelevance in it. Yes we should do everything we can to fight and reverse it, don’t act as any EU country is particularly responsable for it.
[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?facet=none&country=OWID_WRL~European+Union+%2827%29](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?facet=none&country=OWID_WRL~European+Union+%2827%29)
For context we are emitting the same as in 1967. And reduced emissions for decades.
It’s interesting to see the decline…
However, for this to make any sense, we would need to compare these numbers with Population Number, or contamination per Million people?
Always think of this post when u try to stick ur paper straw into a capri sun.
Last generation better help out at the chinese protests.
Fascinating graph, thanks for sharing it. I will feel a bit less guilty tonight.
Yes, our emissions peaked in the 90s. Believe it or not but so did the US’. If we all had governments with even the slightest bit of foresight like the Swedes have, we would have taken climate change seriously in the 70s already.
This is something to be proud of!
https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2
I have two questions:
If something is produced in China but sold on the European market, then are the CO2 emissions counted as Chinese or European?
And how do they count it, when the EU exports it‘s waste to other regions where they get burned?
The number of consumption-based emissions is a much better measure. Europe loves to outsource resource extraction to other countries, despite having plenty of its own (such as gas and lithium).