> Strictly speaking this is not true. Canada, Australia, and some of the gulf states have worse CO2 emissions per capita than the United States.
By personal lifestyle or by dint of providing resources to the hungry hungry hippos of the world?
Outside of the Sheik Yerbouti's the average gulf citizen lives a sparse life - the region has high emissions due to fossil fuel extraction to supply mostly elsewhere.
Australia is an open pit mine; one state with ~2 million people and an area 3x that of Texas mines and exports 16x more iron ore per annum than peak annual mining in the entire USofA - the energy draw required to supply the world with steel isn't a per capita energy use of the Purnululu People *. Perhaps there's an issue with accounting?
China, again, has been playing catch up with the USofA, much of it's climb in energy use was due to outsourced US supply for an exuberence of consummerism.
We've known where fossil fuel use was headed since the 1970s and still the west fell for the Koch brand of greed is good, burn more coal baby, public transport sucks, BuyMore on ConsumerHoliday propaganda - this set the tone for the world to follow as an aspiration goal and shucking responsibility for outsourcing carbon consumption isn't a great look.
Reason077|2 years ago
On the basis of total CO2 emissions, the USA is the second worst, but is far behind China.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
defrost|2 years ago
By personal lifestyle or by dint of providing resources to the hungry hungry hippos of the world?
Outside of the Sheik Yerbouti's the average gulf citizen lives a sparse life - the region has high emissions due to fossil fuel extraction to supply mostly elsewhere.
Australia is an open pit mine; one state with ~2 million people and an area 3x that of Texas mines and exports 16x more iron ore per annum than peak annual mining in the entire USofA - the energy draw required to supply the world with steel isn't a per capita energy use of the Purnululu People *. Perhaps there's an issue with accounting?
China, again, has been playing catch up with the USofA, much of it's climb in energy use was due to outsourced US supply for an exuberence of consummerism.
We've known where fossil fuel use was headed since the 1970s and still the west fell for the Koch brand of greed is good, burn more coal baby, public transport sucks, BuyMore on ConsumerHoliday propaganda - this set the tone for the world to follow as an aspiration goal and shucking responsibility for outsourcing carbon consumption isn't a great look.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmKxmxk6Gas