RE: Earth's recent climate spiral.
August 23, 2022 at 9:45 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2022 at 9:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That's mostly because we let our infrastructure crumble. Imagine the numbers if we'd been paving our roads and fixing our bridges and maintaining our grids and running fiber and...you get the picture.
Bit of an art how to decide where the number goes. Do we credit or debit the end consumer, or the primary manufacturer? Halfsies on the bill? China is racking up numbers for the proximate cause of delivering cheap goods to us - ultimate goal of not having to do that forever. China, in the end, will utterly dwarf the us carbon footprint - and largely because they have the benefit of our industrialization as an example and a system of government (at least for now - regardless of what we think about it) that looks less likely to fail and more competent in engaging in massive projects. The average chinese citizen will, one day, live as well as or better than the average american at present...and probably then-present too..assuming we aren't a smoldering crater by then filled with feral ws killing each other over the last can of bush's baked beans in n america... and are effectively moot..ofc. The resulting carbon footprint will be a product of the sheer force of large numbers.
Bit of an art how to decide where the number goes. Do we credit or debit the end consumer, or the primary manufacturer? Halfsies on the bill? China is racking up numbers for the proximate cause of delivering cheap goods to us - ultimate goal of not having to do that forever. China, in the end, will utterly dwarf the us carbon footprint - and largely because they have the benefit of our industrialization as an example and a system of government (at least for now - regardless of what we think about it) that looks less likely to fail and more competent in engaging in massive projects. The average chinese citizen will, one day, live as well as or better than the average american at present...and probably then-present too..assuming we aren't a smoldering crater by then filled with feral ws killing each other over the last can of bush's baked beans in n america... and are effectively moot..ofc. The resulting carbon footprint will be a product of the sheer force of large numbers.
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