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Merrick
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Edited May 03, 2009, 12:40
Re: capitalism and the law
May 03, 2009, 12:19
dave clarkson wrote:
I believe China is the highest consumer in the world.


Your belief is wrong.

China's per-capita carbon emissions are half of Europe's, and about a quarter of America's.

(Source: ‘World Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Consumption and Flaring of Fossil Fuels (Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide), 1980-2006’, US Energy Information Administration)

This includes the 33% of China's emissions that are manufacturing goods for export (ie us outsourcing our emissions).

American academic Jared Diamond calculates:

"Per capita consumption rates in China are still about 11 times below ours, but let’s suppose they rise to our level. Let’s also make things easy by imagining that nothing else happens to increase world consumption — that is, no other country increases its consumption, all national populations (including China’s) remain unchanged and immigration ceases. China’s catching up alone would roughly double world consumption rates. Oil consumption would increase by 106 percent, for instance, and world metal consumption by 94 percent."
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