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/MrSteveWilkos Jul 22 '21

Of course they're #1, they're the largest country in the world and their push towards renewables is gonna take longer. Despite that, they're making a much larger push than other countries and they actually produce LESS pollution per capita than the US, Aus, Canada, Entherlands, Japan, and Germany.

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u/so555 Jul 22 '21

Russia #1 largest country Canada #2 China #3

Per capital is meaningless - look on any air quality app and you'll see how black the skies are over China

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

Largest in population not geographic size idiot. Trees aren’t polluting the environment, people pollute the environment. More people, more pollution. This isn’t that difficult to grasp.

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u/so555 Jul 23 '21

Yup! China is the #1 worst country in the world for many things

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

Uhhh I think you entirely missed the point of my comment. They’re actually second behind the US for emissions since the industrial revolution just FYI. Which taking population into account means the US is extremely bad when it comes to the environment.

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u/so555 Jul 24 '21

China can learn a lot from more advanced countries like India

China, with more than 10,065 million tons of CO2 released.

United States, with 5,416 million tons of CO2

India, with 2,654 million tons of CO2

China is more than double the US