Comments on: Developed nations have successfully reduced carbon emissions/2025/05/03/developed-nations-have-successfully-reduced-carbon-emissions/The goal of this blog is to create a long list of facts that are important, not trivia, and that are known to be true yet are either disputed by large segments of the public or highly surprising or misunderstood by many.Tue, 06 May 2025 20:56:44 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: thomasstigwikman/2025/05/03/developed-nations-have-successfully-reduced-carbon-emissions/comment-page-1/#comment-3171Tue, 06 May 2025 20:56:44 +0000/?p=2650#comment-3171In reply to dgkaye.

Thank you so much Debby

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]]>By: dgkaye/2025/05/03/developed-nations-have-successfully-reduced-carbon-emissions/comment-page-1/#comment-3168Tue, 06 May 2025 13:40:25 +0000/?p=2650#comment-3168In reply to thomasstigwikman.

Good points Thomas. Everyone blaming each other. I look forward to the next post. 🙂

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2025/05/03/developed-nations-have-successfully-reduced-carbon-emissions/comment-page-1/#comment-3165Tue, 06 May 2025 03:29:21 +0000/?p=2650#comment-3165In reply to dgkaye.

Yes China is the country that currently emit the most in total, India much less, India is pretty minor despite their huge population. However, the United States (and Canada) emit more than China per capita (per person), and the United States is the country with the most total (through history) emissions, 25% despite being only 4% of the world population. It is a complex picture and you can’t really blame a certain country. It means that when the US blames China they are wrong. When China blames the US they are also wrong. When Europe blames the US and China they are also wrong. Everybody blames someone else, and they are all wrong. It depends on what fact you pick. This will be obvious with my next post, the super fact #43.

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]]>By: dgkaye/2025/05/03/developed-nations-have-successfully-reduced-carbon-emissions/comment-page-1/#comment-3164Tue, 06 May 2025 00:29:16 +0000/?p=2650#comment-3164Always such interesting facts here Thomas. I am not surprised China is the worst in emissions. I wonder if they are worse than India? 🙂

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]]>By: The US is the largest cumulative emitter of carbon – Super Facts/2025/05/03/developed-nations-have-successfully-reduced-carbon-emissions/comment-page-1/#comment-3148Mon, 05 May 2025 07:33:46 +0000/?p=2650#comment-3148[…] China’s carbon emissions have been steadily growing (well flattening lately) whilst those of the United States have been reduced by 29.25% (17.04% trade adjusted) since […]

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2025/05/03/developed-nations-have-successfully-reduced-carbon-emissions/comment-page-1/#comment-3147Mon, 05 May 2025 06:30:33 +0000/?p=2650#comment-3147In reply to Debbie D..

You are right Debbie. Everyone has to do their part. When everyone blames everyone else that is difficult.

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]]>By: Debbie D./2025/05/03/developed-nations-have-successfully-reduced-carbon-emissions/comment-page-1/#comment-3146Mon, 05 May 2025 04:39:23 +0000/?p=2650#comment-3146In reply to thomasstigwikman.

The world should unite to solve these problems, but that’s highly unlikely, unfortunately.

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2025/05/03/developed-nations-have-successfully-reduced-carbon-emissions/comment-page-1/#comment-3145Sun, 04 May 2025 18:03:04 +0000/?p=2650#comment-3145In reply to Debbie D..

Yes China is the country that emits the most, but not per capita. That’s because they are 1.4 billion people. For example, the US emits about half of what China does, but the US has only 330 million people, so per capita the US emit more. I can add that per capita the US is not the worst offender either, that’s some small countries. Then you have to consider the cumulative emissions (historical) as well. It gets complicated. That’s why you shouldn’t play the blame game, but we do. The US blames China, China blames the US, and the EU blames China and the US. The blame game prevents action.

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]]>By: Debbie D./2025/05/03/developed-nations-have-successfully-reduced-carbon-emissions/comment-page-1/#comment-3144Sun, 04 May 2025 16:38:25 +0000/?p=2650#comment-3144Good to know that progress has been made worldwide, but too bad it’s not enough. This surprised me:

“China’s carbon emissions per capita is less than that of the United States and that of many other developed countries”

Like many others, I assumed China was the worst offender.

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2025/05/03/developed-nations-have-successfully-reduced-carbon-emissions/comment-page-1/#comment-3143Sun, 04 May 2025 16:35:04 +0000/?p=2650#comment-3143In reply to P. J. Gudka.

Yes it looks like we are moving in that direction. Hopefully we will continue to improve.

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