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		ksdale on Sept 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: People are realizing that degrowth is bad I think he explicitly says in the post that China emits more carbon per capita after accounting for carbon offshoring.

ernopp on Sept 6, 2021 [–]

Yep, accounting for carbon offshoring lowers the difference (US emissions gain 7% if you count consumption not just production, and China's lose 14%) but it still holds that China emits more per capita.

https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2

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