[wbsss4412]

Look at the CO2 chart in the link above, China only recently became the biggest emitter and even then they make up maybe a quarter of CO2 emissions.

The vast majority of emissions and environmental destruction has been done by the global north, only recently has the rest of the world started to become the majority in this sense. You can’t just point the finger and forget all of history up to this point.

[nradov]

China is part of the global North. Beijing is located at 40 °N latitude.

[wbsss4412]

I’m not sure if you’re just unfamiliar but, no, China is not part of the global north.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South?...

[nradov]

That's such a ridiculous definition as to be utterly useless for any real analysis. North Korea is "South" and South Korea is "North". Got it.

I can't believe anyone would take this stuff seriously. But I'm sure it's popular with the officious busybodies in some international NGOs.

[wbsss4412]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can see how it’s confusing, but it’s a fairly well understood term by people within geopolitical circles. Unless you believe latitude is the most important explanatory variable in geopolitics, I don’t think the edge cases are such a big deal as to prevent us from using global north/south as a shorthand.