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On Friday, the globe hit 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees) above pre-industrial levels for the first time in recorded history

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[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's China generating all the pollution. Their 'reported' emissions are 13.7 billion metric tons versus the US's 5.9 billion. And 90% of China's fuel consumers are private, one-off shuttles that don't even report their emissions. US is contributing a tiny fraction of global emissions and it's falling. Yes, US industrialized earlier and has contributed more in total, but we can't time travel, we have to look at who is emitting NOW. China's emissions are rising and nobody there cares to put a cap on it. You want to stop the world from cooking? Talk to China.

Edit: it’s odd how many tankies are on lemmy. Obviously we should take steps ourselves to stop emissions too but China is the world’s true problem when it comes to emissions. US has been steadily falling while China is rising rapidly and that’s only what’s actually reported

[-] Xeminis@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago

I’m not a big fan of China, but that’s just dishonest. Yes, China emits more than twice the co2 US emits. But that means that its per capita emissions are still way below those of the US, even after western countries outsourced a lot of their own pollution to China. Yes, you NEED to talk to China if you’re going to solve it, but pretending that it is more on them than on the west is ridiculous.

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The Earth doesn't care. As long as the western countries keep blaming China only and China not even talking about it, as far as I know from the western media I'm exposed to solely, it will simply get rid of us.

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