[OC] Accumulated CO2 Emissions for the 20 largest emitters

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1. It is so refreshing to see how despite being responsible for the minority of emissions we, Europeans, need to foot the bill and be taxed into poverty “to save the world”.

   Anyone just need to look at the graphic to see how much sense it makes that we are slowly but steadily forced to stop driving our cars or going on holidays to create a positive impact on the planet.

   What a fucking scam climate change is.

2. Can we get an additional data point which is all EU countries combined?

3. Maybe not possible to determine and graph, but I wonder how much of each country’s emissions (but mostly the US’s and China’s) were, and still are, for the “benefit” of other countries. As is, how much of the emissions were used to make things for export to other countries? People like to say, well, the US has benefited the most over the decades, but some of that benefit went to others.

4. This is a great way to show the aspect of carbon emissions that matters on a per country basis, while still showing how emissions have dropped for some countries but not others

5. Why isn’t Europe on one bar?

   Are you kidding btw, because pretty sure the industrial revolution made most of the UK basically unbreathable

6. Stacking them like this at arbitrary cutoffs makes the data hard to compare between eras. It should be by decade or year, or split them up into separate graphs. The rise of industrialization in China in the past 50-75 years is very abrupt and hard to parse.

7. A bit weird to have 50 year intervals and then 2000-2023.

   Might want to switch to rescale that or add a dotted estimate for projected 2000-2050 emissions given current average.

8. Sad chart. If the global temperature data are to be believed, global mean temperature are now 1.0-1.5 C above where they were in 1900.

9. Let’s see per capita

10. Did tracking begin in 1900? Because if it went back further the US would have an even BIGGER “lead”

11. for being the biggest population india is shockingly low in emissions. wow

12. Yes, the US led the industrial revolution and belched out a crap ton of CO2 before anyone realized it was a problem. We’re doing a good bit better now but still have a ways to go.

13. So the chopping down/burning of the Amazon for cattle expansion hasn’t even put Brazil in the top 15?? I mean it sucks about the species and ecosystems being destroyed but, that’s it??

14. Accumulated = cumulative ?

15. And now accumulated per person

16. Hey! South Africa made the list!

    Not a good list, but a list nonetheless

17. Wtf I did not expect South Africa to be *that* high. Brazil and Mexico have 2-3 times more population and 1.5-2 times higher GDP per capita, but they’re still lower.

18. Such a bs criteria to only start counting political entities. So, if the US government collapses tomorrow, this graph will show 0 emission for the US.

19. Challenge mode: accumulated CO2 emissions per capita.

20. Well get China and Russia to eat the bugs instead and they can largely negate the US Get on it, Greta.

21. This is NOT beautiful. Thanks Murica

22. I’ve seen many posts on reddit with a chart to compare carbon emission by country in recent days. I don’t know whether the author was ignorant or with deliberate intent, but this chart is highly misleading.

    All carbon emissions come from human activities to keep people surviving, convenient, and comfortable. Using metal tools, driving cars, taking planes, and eating foods, all these activities consume energy and resource, thereby generating carbon emissions.

    From a fairness perspective, every individual should be entitled to their share of industrial products and the corresponding carbon footprint. Therefore, large nations like India and China, with populations over 1.4 billion, would naturally consume 1.5 million times more products and emit 1.5 million times more carbon than the small state like the Vatican.

    So any chart illustrating human carbon footprints that avoids using per capita metrics is meaningless and misleading.

    Such a chart can merely reflect the irrational anxieties of the creator, but lacks scientific rigor, and will fail to offer any practical solutions.

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