I always find the common note on CO2 emissions, regarding the US per capita emissions as being higher even though China's overall is now higher, to be heavily context dropping.
The US economy is twice the size of China's, and the US manufacturing output is still larger than China's, and we put out less CO2. The reality is, the US economy is radically more efficient when it comes to CO2 emissions compared to China. US per capita GDP is between nine and ten times higher than China, but CO2 emissions per capita are four times higher.
There's a lot of room for improvement, and we should keep improving, but China isn't even close on economic output to CO2 output.
It's a beautiful visualization but isn't it quite misleading for China? If you don't count the EU as one block, China is the world's second economy and it is considered to have a gigantic middle-class, in the hundreds of millions (650 million chinese expected to be middle-class by 2022: that is in eight years).
I mean: the big cities in China should clearly appear in blue no?
No, the big cities shouldn't shouldn't be blue. The average person in eg Shanghai isn't earning over $12,000 per year. Purple most likely however.
"Shanghai's urban residents, with an average disposable income of 40,188 yuan (US$6,379) last year, earned the most among China's 21 provincial areas that have posted their income growth, according to the latest data."
Yeah, but it's sad they haven't made any effort to correct for population density. So it's only the overall colour of a country that carries information, the hues just tell you where people live (but you might mistake them for meaning something else, be careful!)
[+] [-] adventured|12 years ago|reply
The US economy is twice the size of China's, and the US manufacturing output is still larger than China's, and we put out less CO2. The reality is, the US economy is radically more efficient when it comes to CO2 emissions compared to China. US per capita GDP is between nine and ten times higher than China, but CO2 emissions per capita are four times higher.
There's a lot of room for improvement, and we should keep improving, but China isn't even close on economic output to CO2 output.
[+] [-] TacticalCoder|12 years ago|reply
I mean: the big cities in China should clearly appear in blue no?
[+] [-] adventured|12 years ago|reply
"Shanghai's urban residents, with an average disposable income of 40,188 yuan (US$6,379) last year, earned the most among China's 21 provincial areas that have posted their income growth, according to the latest data."
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-01/26/content_27800262.ht...
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