EU currently emits only 5% of the globally emitted greenhouse gases.
You can cut all the city hopping you want and it won't make the slightest difference.
You can cut all the city hopping you want and it won't make the slightest difference.
China's figure aren't that great on their own, with exportation deducted.
EDIT: 12% is all of Europe. This thread is about the EU.
Europe as a whole emits 12%.
If the EU mandated that products imported are made in a carbon neutral fashion, then importers of products will pay attention. Unfortunately it means higher prices, and the governments will get voted out of office by people voting for the populists selling the electoral promise of "Make Prices Low Again!"...
You're commenting on a comments thread about the possible desertification of Europe, a conversation we're having in the context of the record hot summer.
The extremist parties offer scapegoats and solutions for the unthinking ("The brown people! Remigration! The elite, except we're getting funded by the elite and we'll protect them and fuck you!"), and sadly there's too many stupid people who can't be spoonfed any concept of "think deeper" that like buying those...