China Passes US as World’s Biggest CO2 Emitter
by John Vidal / David Adam
China has overtaken the US as the biggest producer of carbon dioxide, a development that will increase anxiety about its role in driving man-made global warming and will add to pressure on the world’s politicians to reach an agreement on climate change that includes the Chinese economy.
I removed the majority of the article you copied from your link, CynicalGabe. The article was copyrighted, and you went way beyond Fair Use when you posted the entire thing. But, you did include your link, so readers can get to the entire article if they wanna.
In addition, we want more than just a link and quoted text in an OP. Share your thoughts, comment on the article; just as long as it’s more than what you can get through an RSS feed.
Kyoto Good. CO2 Bad.
It’s nice to see that the US is no longer #1 in this area. Now we have something else to rag on China about.
Don’t pat yourself too hard on the back as US per capita emmission is still 4x higher.
This seems to be a very immature argument. ‘If country x does something bad then we should get to also!’ :rolleyes:
Not to mention the fact that in this instance country x happens to be a fast-developing nation which has created competition for the already-developed countries who should reasonably have got to a point where environmental (or social, or ethical, or moral) concerns should not be ignored if it means a fast buck can be made.
Who is arguing that?
I wonder what would happen to the planet’s environment if we pumped as much co2 as we could into the atmosphere?
Hey, why not conduct a planet-wide experiment?
Sounds too dumb to be true, doesn’t it?