• Ben Matthews
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    2 days ago

    China is also a bigger emitter per capita than most european countries - for a decade now.
    Why do so many people only compare to US - a small fraction of the world - maybe as fits simplistic narratives ?

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      12 days ago

      Why do so many people only compare to US - a small fraction of the world

      Not by per capital emissions rate. That’s the rub. They consume horrendous volumes of energy and emit plumes of waste so they can… what? All do donuts with their F-1250s in the parking lots of bankrupt Walmarts?

      Now they’re at the heart of AI development, another phenomenal energy suck that exists to vomit ads to their perpetually ravenous residents so they’ll buy even more shit.

      Europe had problems it isn’t the problem like the globetrotting industrial behemoth that is the US.