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Topic	Wealthiest 5% of humans contributed 37% of emissions growth between 1990-2015
the_rowan 04/13/21 1:13:56 PM #25:	CHM_Punk posted... Your words are whining about the source material potentially being misleading. The image is from MediaBiasFactCheck and highlights the factual reporting and solid record of Our World in Data. The doomsday rhetoric that a number of posters on CE operate under about the United States being so terrible and bad does not line up with the hard evidence that can be provided lol. You do understand that that graph shows the US producing about half the CO2 emissions as China despite having less than 1/4 of its population, right? The amount produced is reflected by the size of a region's colored area, not its vertical placement. The regions are ordered arbitrarily on the vertical axis. The first plot, of annual CO2 emissions, has the US at about 5 billion tons and China at about 10 billion tons. The second plot a couple posts above this shows that the US has produced 3-4 times the amount of China in the last 250ish years combined, but that's not a particularly relevant number for anything. CO2 isn't the only relevant gas anyway... --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia <cite>the_rowan posted [p:952788475] in Wealthiest... [t:79403026]...</cite> <quote>CHM_Punk posted... </cite> <quote>Your words are whining about the source material potentially being misleading. The image is from MediaBiasFactCheck and highlights the factual reporting and solid record of Our World in Data. The doomsday rhetoric that a number of posters on CE operate under about the United States being so terrible and bad does not line up with the hard evidence that can be provided lol.</quote> You do understand that that graph shows the US producing about half the CO2 emissions as China despite having less than 1/4 of its population, right? The amount produced is reflected by the size of a region's colored area, not its vertical placement. The regions are ordered arbitrarily on the vertical axis. The first plot, of annual CO2 emissions, has the US at about 5 billion tons and China at about 10 billion tons. The second plot a couple posts above this shows that the US has produced 3-4 times the amount of China in the last 250ish years combined, but that's not a particularly relevant number for anything. CO2 isn't the only relevant gas anyway... --- "That is why war is so tragic. To win means to make victims of your opponents and give birth to hatred." - Kratos Aurion, Tales of Symphonia</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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