• fosiacat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    you know the US is the biggest polluter in the world, right? in particular the US military.

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      1 year ago

      China, the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, produces 12.7 billion metric tons of emissions annually. That dwarfs U.S. emissions, currently about 5.9 billion tons annually

      What about China? Are you purposely ignoring China because you’re a tankie? I’m not saying the US is innocent but it seems like you’re not being entirely factual here about the biggest polluters.

      Also, I wasn’t able to find the info all in one place but the figures I’m seeing about military carbon footprints are as follows between the two nations:

      US: 59,000,000,000 tons

      China: 95,000,000,000 tons

      So, I obviously agree that the US has a carbon footprint problem but you seem to be putting most of the blame on the second largest offender and ignroing the first. A suspicious thing to do for anyone other than a tankie, looking to distort the truth.

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        1 year ago

        Two obvious things: China has 2-3 x the people. Maybe adjust to a per person basis? Or a per GDP ratio if you are so inclined. Also, most of the stuff for sale comes from China - so we just moved our emissions there. This is super hard to adjust for, but should be considered a bit.

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          On your second point, I’m mainly referring to military carbon footprints.

          I’ll do the GDP scaling when I’m not out and about unless you want to do it first.