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0 pointsforgotoldacc1y ago0 comments

Because they have 1.4 billion people.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/per-cap...

Some useful terminology for your journey.

Imagine you have a buffet. You have five people who each take 1 steak. Then you have one person who takes 4 steaks.

You are the person saying the one person taking 4 steaks is okay. The problem is the selfish four people who are eating 1 steak each. If they all stopped, the other guy could have 9 steaks.

Which is of course a silly proposition. The one guy could simply eat fewer steaks.

China is also the center of world manufacturing. The fact they make almost everything on earth but still have lower per capita emissions than the US is impressive.

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caminante1y ago

LOL. You try to get pedantic about per capita and use a buffet analogy, but don't even get the mapping to the problem right or make a point that helps you.

China is responsible for >30% of ghg emissions and for 90% of incremental CO2 emissions growth in the last decade. Their population didn't grow more than ~2%! Your buffet analogy misses the constraint about the earth's carbon budget being limited to keep global warming to +1.5c. China is effectively blowing through everyone's budget so that no steak will be left and running the buffet out of business.

forgotoldaccOP1y ago

You're angry and making up things that make no sense. Settle down.

caminante1y ago

Laughter is "angry?"

You compared China and Climate Change to a steak buffet. LMAO...

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0 pointsforgotoldacc1y ago0 comments

Because they have 1.4 billion people.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/per-cap...

Some useful terminology for your journey.

Imagine you have a buffet. You have five people who each take 1 steak. Then you have one person who takes 4 steaks.

You are the person saying the one person taking 4 steaks is okay. The problem is the selfish four people who are eating 1 steak each. If they all stopped, the other guy could have 9 steaks.

Which is of course a silly proposition. The one guy could simply eat fewer steaks.

China is also the center of world manufacturing. The fact they make almost everything on earth but still have lower per capita emissions than the US is impressive.

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caminante1y ago

LOL. You try to get pedantic about per capita and use a buffet analogy, but don't even get the mapping to the problem right or make a point that helps you.

forgotoldaccOP1y ago

You're angry and making up things that make no sense. Settle down.

caminante1y ago

Laughter is "angry?"

You compared China and Climate Change to a steak buffet. LMAO...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse