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This is cause for celebration, but it shouldn’t hide the reality that with more than 8 tons per person per year, the UK is in the top 5 most carbon-emitting countries. The country has significant agriculture or industry can justify such a highly polluting regime.

In truth, the UK has horrendous insulation and burns a staggering amount of gas to heat houses made of pasta stainers and wet cardboard; people drive their ICE cars everywhere… There are simple measures that should have been mandatory a decade ago. Instead, the government is too busy arresting the scientists who can help —for the crime of standing there, no less— and handing over subsidies to companies that are making record profits and opening more gas wells.

Far too many Britons dismiss the idea that they’ll be direct victims of climate unsettling. Every model I have seen highlights dire possibilities.



> 8 tons per person per year, the UK is in the top 5 most carbon-emitting countries.

Can you share your sources please? Here, for example, they claim that the UK produces 5.5 tons per person, not 8. Much less than, say, the US with 15 tons:

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...


Even with simple Google queries, I’m seeing very different results:

- This says 5 https://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+footprint+per+person+...

- This says 10 https://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+footprint+per+person+...

- This says 8: https://www.google.com/search?q=top+carbon+emitting+countrie...

All of those are catastrophic. Any number above 1 ton per person is not tenable. Half would be better.


Almost all the difference is due to bigger homes and more miles driven in the US. Hopefully adoption of heat pumps and electric cars will send that number plummeting in the next decade.


> This is cause for celebration, but it shouldn’t hide the reality that with more than 8 tons per person per year, the UK is in the top 5 most carbon-emitting countries. The country has significant agriculture or industry can justify such a highly polluting regime.

France has been proving for years how to decarbonize fast:

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?t...

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?y...

> https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-sector?y...


Possibly it's just on mobile, but the French graph seems to be on a completely different scale to the other two. Their agricultural emissions are higher than the UK for example, but at least for me that is far from obvious from the graphs.




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