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Well, none of that matters anyways when China now emits almost twice as much CO2 as the US and is basically single-handedly not just absorbing all the rest of the world’s reduction efforts, but increasing the global output enormously.

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Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Double the emissions for 4 times the people? Damn that’s pretty efficient in comparison.

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- jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  While that’s efficient by comparison, the atmosphere doesn’t really give us a break for per-capita adjustments. Yes, the US is more irresponsible per capita and they need to fix that. However China gets more bang-for-the-buck in per-capita improvements when it comes to the actual environmental impact.
  
  Depends on whether we are talking about where to optimize for best impact, or whether we are talking about fairness of blame.
  
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