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by oceanplexian 1691 days ago
I'm willing to bet that per-capita, the US produces far more economic output per KG of CO2 than most of the rest of the world. Like with any statistic, you can slice and dice it any way you want to fit an agenda.
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Here's a chart of carbon intensity vs. GDP per capita for various countries:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-vs-gdp

Why don't you slice and dice that based on your agenda and tell us what we should conclude?

Uh...why not the proper comparison, which is GDP per kg CO2? While I believe that GDP is Θ(1) bound to CO2 emissions, any comparison should include those constants. Your chart is missing the connection between kWh consumed and GDP generated.
> the connection between kWh consumed and GDP generated

If you don't mind those numbers being normalised by population size, and CO2 emissions being used as a more relevant metric than kWh, then this chart might be helpful:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...