Lots of other interesting data there! I encourage everyone to check it out.
I was very surprised by the fact that China’s per-capita emissions are now higher than ours.
Climate schizophrenia….
Can it really be that the US had such enormous values in the 19th century?
Normally I trust our world in data a lot but I really can’t believe this.
Meanwhile, some claim China is leading in green tech… lol
i wouldn’t expect the 1850 emissions to be that much higher
But what percentage is due to industry? And how is it counted?
We outsourced a lot of industry to China.
We use enormous amounts of steel the making of which produces a lot of CO2, but we closed down most steel plants after the 70s in Europe and the US.
So the CO2 emissions due the steel we buy, is it counted per capita in China or in the EU?
Wai wait wait.
This is per capita? Obviously wtf USA? But what the fuck is china doing? Not even the “all the factories in the za wurld” can justify this when everyone is moving away from China.
Jesus this is insane.
Are you sure this is per capita?
US, get your shit together
Now that China has higher emissions per capita, what is the excuse to turn a blind eye to the country’s emissions?
China keeps going up as EU and US goes down. Also if you look at the total emissions, China emits double the greenhouse gas and C02 overall. They do have more people though, America’s problem is relying in cars and planes so much. Also the corporations that emit pretty much all the c02 and greenhouse games. Without the corporate greed we would probably see half as much emissions. They need more oversight and regulation
Maybe I don’t understand something, but how could the US peak in 1850?
I know that America industrialized early, but back then majority of people were still famers. Factories were still fairly small in scale, most people didn’t really consume much and a lot of what they did consume was grown or produced by them at home.
You would think that the peak would be somewhere in the early-middle 20th century, when the economy was pretty much 100% industrialized, there were no environmental regulations, energy production was basically 100% fossil fuels, and regular people started consuming more and adapting technologies like AC and cars en masse. And the extreme industrial output around the world wars should increase the emissions even more.
So how does this data make sense?
Now show me total emissions. Per capita graph creates a false impression that Europe is comparable to the rest of the world.
China has 1B people and India and other Asian countries aren’t even included in the graph.
Western world had its fun with greenhouse gases durin the 1980s and early 2000s. Now its China and Asia’s time to shine
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source: [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-ghg-emissions?tab=chart&country=USA~CHN~OWID_EU27](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-ghg-emissions?tab=chart&country=USA~CHN~OWID_EU27)
Lots of other interesting data there! I encourage everyone to check it out.
I was very surprised by the fact that China’s per-capita emissions are now higher than ours.
Climate schizophrenia….
Can it really be that the US had such enormous values in the 19th century?
Normally I trust our world in data a lot but I really can’t believe this.
Meanwhile, some claim China is leading in green tech… lol
i wouldn’t expect the 1850 emissions to be that much higher
But what percentage is due to industry? And how is it counted?
We outsourced a lot of industry to China.
We use enormous amounts of steel the making of which produces a lot of CO2, but we closed down most steel plants after the 70s in Europe and the US.
So the CO2 emissions due the steel we buy, is it counted per capita in China or in the EU?
Wai wait wait.
This is per capita? Obviously wtf USA? But what the fuck is china doing? Not even the “all the factories in the za wurld” can justify this when everyone is moving away from China.
Jesus this is insane.
Are you sure this is per capita?
US, get your shit together
Now that China has higher emissions per capita, what is the excuse to turn a blind eye to the country’s emissions?
China keeps going up as EU and US goes down. Also if you look at the total emissions, China emits double the greenhouse gas and C02 overall. They do have more people though, America’s problem is relying in cars and planes so much. Also the corporations that emit pretty much all the c02 and greenhouse games. Without the corporate greed we would probably see half as much emissions. They need more oversight and regulation
Maybe I don’t understand something, but how could the US peak in 1850?
I know that America industrialized early, but back then majority of people were still famers. Factories were still fairly small in scale, most people didn’t really consume much and a lot of what they did consume was grown or produced by them at home.
You would think that the peak would be somewhere in the early-middle 20th century, when the economy was pretty much 100% industrialized, there were no environmental regulations, energy production was basically 100% fossil fuels, and regular people started consuming more and adapting technologies like AC and cars en masse. And the extreme industrial output around the world wars should increase the emissions even more.
So how does this data make sense?
Now show me total emissions. Per capita graph creates a false impression that Europe is comparable to the rest of the world.
China has 1B people and India and other Asian countries aren’t even included in the graph.
Western world had its fun with greenhouse gases durin the 1980s and early 2000s. Now its China and Asia’s time to shine