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0 pointsgruez2mo ago0 comments

>More productivity lends to more exploitation, because you can do more with the same unit of work, instead of getting the same result with less work..

But per-capita greenhouse emissions have been falling in much of the developed world? And you can't really claim with a straight face that productivity has been dropping from 2000 to today.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?c...

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defrost2mo ago· 1 in thread

> But per-capita greenhouse emissions have been falling in much of the developed world?

Only by the deceptive accounting trick of not including the emissions associated with overseas production of the goods consumed by the "developed world".

If you include all the emissions that prop up the highest per capita consumption patterns on the planet then you see the highest per capita emissions attached to the highest consumers.

gruezOP2mo ago

>Only by the deceptive accounting trick of not including the emissions associated with overseas production of the goods consumed by the "developed world".

That does increase US's emissions, but not enough to change the conclusion:

https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2

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