Yeah Europe's pretty good in that regard. I just said this because whenever people reddit brings up pollution, they immediately place the blame on China and India.
Which is such bullshit. I did the research on this one time to try and convince a redditor his opinion was poorly thought-out and just plain wrong. It took like 10 minutes to find gajillions of credible sources that all say the most pollution (per capita) is the gulf oil states followed by the US, with India and China so far down the list as to be negligible. I then also looked at pollution overall and was a little surprised to learn that the US still beats China! And China is home to 1/5 of all humans! India, of course, was negligible here as well.
And this isn't even accounting for outsourced pollution, which is also a thing that exists. It's mind-boggling that people blame China and India for pollution when it's so clear that they aren't the problem.
Yup, I know. That's what prompted me to read up the energy policies of both countries. Of course trying to explain this to reddit is a useless endeavour.
I didn't take the final step to ask why their pollution would be so much less than ours. I'm glad you did though, and now I know something new! So thanks!
It's really true that explaining this to reddit is useless. I don't know for sure, maybe I planted a seed in that guy's mind that day, but his replies definitely made it seem like he was unwilling to even consider that he might be wrong.
I'm sure it's got a lot more to do with how much resources americans (and by that I mean the top 10% of the people in the US) frivoluosly waste; but 40% is still a significant chunk of a country's energy economy.
seem to remember France having some good numbers in that regard, they use a lot of nuclear
Yeah Europe's pretty good in that regard. I just said this because whenever
peoplereddit brings up pollution, they immediately place the blame on China and India.Which is such bullshit. I did the research on this one time to try and convince a redditor his opinion was poorly thought-out and just plain wrong. It took like 10 minutes to find gajillions of credible sources that all say the most pollution (per capita) is the gulf oil states followed by the US, with India and China so far down the list as to be negligible. I then also looked at pollution overall and was a little surprised to learn that the US still beats China! And China is home to 1/5 of all humans! India, of course, was negligible here as well.
And this isn't even accounting for outsourced pollution, which is also a thing that exists. It's mind-boggling that people blame China and India for pollution when it's so clear that they aren't the problem.
deleted by creator
And that's just bald-faced eugenics of course. Man, reddit is so gross.
deleted by creator
Yup, I know. That's what prompted me to read up the energy policies of both countries. Of course trying to explain this to reddit is a useless endeavour.
I didn't take the final step to ask why their pollution would be so much less than ours. I'm glad you did though, and now I know something new! So thanks!
It's really true that explaining this to reddit is useless. I don't know for sure, maybe I planted a seed in that guy's mind that day, but his replies definitely made it seem like he was unwilling to even consider that he might be wrong.
I'm sure it's got a lot more to do with how much resources americans (and by that I mean the top 10% of the people in the US) frivoluosly waste; but 40% is still a significant chunk of a country's energy economy.