• nrezcm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How is it not true? Per capital they are lower but that doesn’t mean much when you have over a billion people. I think a more accurate sentence would be most industrialized nations have awful awful climate impacts.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a bit disingenuous to blame a country for having high emissions when it has 10x the number of people

      That means it needs 10x the amount of electricity, vehicle fuel etc.

      By the same logic, the Vatican City is a world leader in climate policy.

      Should we start comparing China with the Americas and Europe combined? Because that’s a more like-for-like comparison