It’s especially obscene when you consider that countries at the top outsourced most of their industry to the countries at the bottom.
How about the cumulative carbon emissions from 2011-2021? That would be interesting to have a contrast to the grand total.
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People are almost completely focused on current rate of emission, and while that’s okay in and of itself since that’s the only thing we can actually change going forward, it’s also important to consider that from the atmosphere’s perspective, it’s the total amount of GHGs emitted that determine the severity of climate change. CO2 has an atmospheric lifetime on the order of a thousand years, so all the CO2 we dumped into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution is still there.
Therefore, this tells us how much each country has actually contributed to climate change.
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The relevance is that every citizen of the UK currently enjoys a standard of living that is a direct result of that resource usage. So to answer your question, yes, everyone is responsible, unless they suddenly decide to go live the life of a hermit.
I wonder how they measure this. Because I know Canada gets most of its energy from hydropower, but they export a lot of fossil fuels.
Canadian here. We get a lot of credit for our vast forest land, but forests don’t reduce carbon emission. So at the end of the day, you’ve got this huge country of nearly 40 million people who have to drive to travel our vast landspace and yeah, we’re insanely net negative.
Source on where Canadian emissions come from. The big problem with emissions is there’s no 80/20 rule, and every sector pollutes their part of the pie.
It’s worth noting that Canada’s biggest contribution to the problem doesn’t come from internal fossil fuel usage, but rather from its oil exports.
We get a lot of credit for our vast forest land, but forests don’t reduce carbon emission.
Also Canadian, I honestly find it really weird when people cite Canada’s forests as an “upside” to our carbon output. We didn’t make the forests so why should we get any credit? In fact, we’re in the process of destroying them.
