India has been happily buying discount fossil fuels from Russia. Foot, meet gun
US imported even more.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-b...
Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave
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#12India has been happily buying discount fossil fuels from Russia. Foot, meet gun
Yeah, why care for the poor population even when Europe is busy buying oil for itself. It’s not like per capita consumption of the west is 10x or greater.
exactly .... "rules for thee, but none for me". In an already resource constrained place like India, it will take time to switch to renewable resources. Until then the only option is fossil fuels.
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#13During the summer of 2021 Lytton, BC in Canada hit a slightly higher temperature of 49.6C.
The next day the town burned down.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/literally-hotter-than-t...
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#14Reminds me that I should finish reading The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
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#15Climate change in action, only going to get worse.
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#17India has been happily buying discount fossil fuels from Russia. Foot, meet gun
Yeah, why care for the poor population even when Europe is busy buying oil for itself. It’s not like per capita consumption of the west is 10x or greater.
Well that would be 12kWh (EU) vs. 1.8kWh (India). Multiply by population 447M * 12 kWh = 5364 BkWh vs. 1360M * 1.8 kWh = 2448 BkWh from oil. So yes, EU is spewing twice the co2 from oil. That said, the EU has probably the strongest co2 emissions reduction programs out there atm. The EU for example reduced its co2 emissions by 19% 2019->2020. India’s co2 emissions OTOH grows 4-5% each year. So in that sense they are shooting themselves in the foot. Of course there are multitudes of things to consider (GDP, standard of living etc.) so blamegame is a bit misplaced.
For blame: all this pales in comparison to the US, which consumes over twice the oil per capita (27 kWh/capita) vs. EU https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-oil?tab=table which make 27 kWh * 334M = 9000 BWh from oil alone and is barely reducing their total co2 emmissions. They reduced it by a whopping 1% 2009-2019
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#18India has been happily buying discount fossil fuels from Russia. Foot, meet gun
Yeah, why care for the poor population even when Europe is busy buying oil for itself. It’s not like per capita consumption of the west is 10x or greater.
Europe is stopping it, India is asking for more. 140 countries could condemn the war in an UN vote - India couldn't.
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#19A grim thought, but in 50 years time when a lot of the planet is uninhabitably hot, does that reduce emissions, by virtue of, you know, there not being people to stoke the fires?