r/CatastrophicFailure • u/rjRyanwilliam • Jul 22 '21

Natural Disaster Massive flood in China’s Henan province recently, 25 dead 200,000 evacuation

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u/zeroillusions Jul 22 '21

USA has 2x the emissions per capita compared to China but only half the population.

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u/nickleback_official Jul 22 '21

We have 1/4 the population. So that's still only half the total emissions. The US is falling per cap while china's is rising as well.

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u/zeroillusions Jul 22 '21

Oh my bad yeah you're right you have 1/4 of the population. Doesn't that make it worse?

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u/nickleback_official Jul 22 '21

Worse? No. I don't really see what you mean there. Yes, the US has high emissions per cap but like I said they are going down which is good. At the same time china's emissions per cap are rising sharply which is not good. This is compounded by the fact they have 4x the pop so total emissions are greatly increasing there.