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by brd
2362 days ago
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China is 2x the emitter that the US is and it's going to get worse. China has more than doubled their per capita emissions in the last 20 years. Many other countries will follow suit. The US and other more developed economies are plateauing in terms of emissions per capita. While there's ample opportunity to begin to claw back those numbers, it is not where the problem lies moving forward. |
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United States: 16.5 metric tons of CO2 per capita
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Other developed countries:
Germany: 8.9 metric tons of CO2 per capita
France: 4.6 metric tons of CO2 per capita
UK: 6.5 metric tons of CO2 per capita
Spain: 5 metric tons of CO2 per capita
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This is 2014 data (for comparability), but in 2018 China still had half (7.95 metric tons per capita) the CO2 per capita than the US