Climate Injustise ?
February 28th, 2008 at 2:22 pm by jiyan (Uncategorized, climate injustise)
The average American’s annual carbon footprint — 20.4 tons. The average Chat’s annual carbon footprint is 0.01 tons. [Ref 2] It is around 2,040 times that of someone living in the African nation. Average American’s or the wealthiest countries people will emit as much carbon dioxide (C02) in one day as a African will in an entire year.
Around half of the world’s population — slightly fewer than 3 billion people — survives on less than $2 a day. Overall, the United Nations estimates that the carbon footprint of the world’s 1 billion poorest people (those living on less than $1 a day) represents just 3 percent of the global total.
And yet it’s the world’s poorest who are likely to feel the affects of climate change the most and are less likely to be able to deal with them.
The 80/20 rules will apply which 80 percent of the world’s emissions come from just 20 percent of the inhabitants of the world’s which is wealthiest nations.
The poverty nation who depend most on the land and natural resources for living affected the most as natural disasters mostly affected the land and water.
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Penguin said,
June 14th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
You know what’s really scary? The average citizen of Qatar produces 69.2 tons of CO2 per year – that’s nearly 7000 times as much as your hypothetical “average African”. Note that that number has *tripled* since 1990, while that of the average USian has gone up by perhaps 10%. Thailand has more than doubled. The countries in eastern Europe which have consistently reduced their emissions have done so accidentally as their economies tanked.
You know what else is scary? Check out the bottom of the list. Two things they’ve all got in common – they’ve got a remarkably low level of technology, for the most part, and they’re all full of people just struggling to eat enough. Environmentalists are free to applaud them for their low emission of greenhouse gases, but most of them do so from the comfort and plenty of the developed world they condemn.
As always, look for what numbers aren’t presented before drawing conclusions. “Per capita” doesn’t mean much if there’s a few large industries that produce most of the emissions (as is likely the case in Qatar, with its petroleum industry).
Oh, and apparently Chad, that paragon of sustainable starvation, is starting to develop an oil industry… oops! We should condemn them for using their natural resources they have, instead of shutting up and starving without ruining the air for the rest of us.
Rose82 said,
July 9th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
There are a lot of problems with climate because of the mankind and our activities. But there is the best climate in Munich for me. Why I want to move there (http://www.talkmunich.com/forum/general-discussion/why-did-you-move-to-munich)? The climate is one of the most important reasons to do this.