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MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Pollution per GDP is a bad measure. Mali has a high CO2 intensity, but the GDP per capita is low, so pollution is low. The best measures are emissions per capita in consumption and production terms. China is not a saint in either of those metrics, being rather close to the EU in both of them today.

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nednobbins@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
GDP is total production net of total consumption. It would be cool to compare it to those factors independently but don’t know of anyone who reports that data.

I’m not looking to bestow sainthood upon any country. Just looking for the most accurate metric.

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