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by regpertom 1537 days ago
Having a squiz at the first page of results on that question, seems like it’s a per capita thing of being a large country with few people. Also, “including exports”, which means all the coal etc and thing they export to China etc is being counted. I don’t want to say it’s an accounting trick but it feels like an accounting trick. 7% of global fossil fuel exports counted against 0.3% of the worlds population (8bill vs 27mill). Is it also counted against the importing country when they use it? Because that feels like double counting.
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That doesn’t sound right. Then Saudi Arabia and Russia should be super high west with all the fossil fuels they produce and export…

As you say that’s double counting.