benjhm

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Although not an expert on that specific country, I can be sure that ' almost all ' is very misleading, even if it gets a lot upvotes because people find it convenient to blame some big bad other. Even if you have specific data for electricity, don't forget a lot of CO2 is emitted by cars, and also by fuel to heat homes (including some peat in special case of ireland - and in that country a large fraction of GHG emissions is also methane from agriculture).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (6 children)

From the tasks described, it seems to me they were not measuring 'Computer Skills' as reasoning, patience, tenacity - people could have similar issues with similar tasks involving a pile of papers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

As it happens I've been calculating per capita emissions for 28 years, since COP2. You can see my model here.
No I certainly don't include Russia nor Turkey, although europe is more than EU. Korea is indeed notable. Regarding what they call 'consumption emissions', you can get such data from Global Carbon Project, on that I'm less an expert but my hunch is that industry emissions are dominated by heavy products like steel and cement for construction (made with help of gigatons of coal), rather than light consumer goods for export. Over-construction is the root of the problem, global emissions will peak (maybe now) as that bubble bursts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

lopq's original comment is correct for 'whole west' too. the second part is also true per capita. By the way europe also has a lot more people than united states, it's not irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You are right, it’s simple numbers, scientific fact, pity so much downvotes, people should check recent data rather than get stuck with old concepts from 1990s (when climate politics began).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes they invested enormously in high-speed train lines. But look on satellite image around those train stations, new city blocks have massive roads everywhere, 5 lanes in each direction, plus in parallel another set of toll roads. Even if those roads were empty , the cement and steel for all that has contributed enormous quantity of CO2 to the atmosphere.
Chinese emissions per capita are higher than european average for many years now, however they always pick the worst country in the world for comparison statistics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Emissions per capita of China have been higher than the european average for about a decade now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The problem is that whatever careful process EU implements to restrict spread of fake news etc., authoritarian states will copy its facade and terminology, to justify their own censorship of real news ( in Russia people go to prison for calling a war a war).

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My boys have chromebooks, it’s almost mandatory for school now, and I get why teachers need the whole class to have a similar locally-networked tool. Problem is we as parents can't set anything, as we don't have 'developer' access, and the school controls their accounts. So at home, they do stupid stuff. The hardware is ok, I wish it was just linux. About what google gets - I doubt the current data is so valuable, they play a long game hoping to lock young people into their ecosystem, to profit from people with cash/energy in their 20s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Highly recommend to watch this - very well made, also as a personal drama, how dreams are made and broken.

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