> 8 tons per person per year, the UK is in the top 5 most carbon-emitting countries.
Can you share your sources please? Here, for example, they claim that the UK produces 5.5 tons per person, not 8. Much less than, say, the US with 15 tons:
Almost all the difference is due to bigger homes and more miles driven in the US. Hopefully adoption of heat pumps and electric cars will send that number plummeting in the next decade.
- This says 5 https://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+footprint+per+person+...
- This says 10 https://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+footprint+per+person+...
- This says 8: https://www.google.com/search?q=top+carbon+emitting+countrie...
All of those are catastrophic. Any number above 1 ton per person is not tenable. Half would be better.