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by defrost 512 days ago
Your claim that "China's the biggest emitter and doesn't care." is nonsense.

They care, they've bought more absolute effort to the issue than most countries, their future plans and projections are out there and on per capita basis they are doing better than most.

Your only line on this is that the country with the largest population has the largest energy consumption and emmissions.

And .. ?

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As mentioned above [0], the per capita hand waving doesn't work when China's responsible for 90% of earth's CO2 emissions growth in the last decade (c.f. 2% population growth) and blowing through the globe's carbon budget.

In the future, good luck landing on claims you'll actually stand behind (still laughing at your revised definition of "manual") or advance your argument.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428052180