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Not per capita, though

Chinese citizens emit more CO2 per capita than citizens from the EU, and since 2013.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/science-enviro...

How much of the CO2 per capita that China emits goes into making products for EU/US citizens? Is that factored in?

Probably not. We want to feel good about ourselves, so we twist the numbers in our favor and can point at China as a "reason" not to change anything here.

I really hate to write this, but this is outsourced CO2 from EU. EU manufacturing is dead. I look at my home office around me - everything is made in China. Some pieces of furniture are EU made, but the rest - made in China things. Old Tektronix scope is “made in USA”, but it is really old.

Old numbers from the top of my head:

14% China's emissions can be directly attributed to Chinese exports. The domestic economy is a much bigger source of pollution, unless of course you consider the entirety of China a western colony that only exists to export products to the west. I consider the latter option untenable.

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