Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds
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#2Source paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24487-w
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#3I think our society needs to revisit ideas about not just collective responsibility, but collective guilt. Any one of us struggles to see living our normal carbon-intensive lives as an act of violence, but the consequences are nevertheless deadly. We've understood many of the impacts of our behavior for decades, but our carbon intensive activities only intensified.
At what point can we talk about collective guilt, and appropriate measures of a justice system? At what point do we say that, like PG&E killed a couple of towns, that a larger collective like a country or group of countries has killed people?
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#4are Americans producing the most emissions per person? I bet no - so why Americans are singled out?
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#5Quick, get these three Americans in jail \s
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#7I think our society needs to revisit ideas about not just collective responsibility, but collective guilt. Any one of us struggles to see living our normal carbon-intensive lives as an act of violence, but the consequences are nevertheless deadly. We've understood many of the impacts of our behavior for decades, but our carbon intensive activities only intensified. At what point can we talk about collective guilt, an…
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#8are Americans producing the most emissions per person? I bet no - so why Americans are singled out?
Among countries with big population numbers, US has among the highest rate of energy use and pollution per person, and by far.
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#9In the dawn of the web, one of my favorite websites was despair.com.
I laughed at the sarcastic cynicism and sendups of corporate culture.
Then they rocked my world with a poster of a drop of water falling into a larger body of water with the text: "No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood" and the title "Irresponsibility".
Still available apparently, with the base idea being clearly more true than ever.
The problem is group actions require group solutions. I can go vegetarian and live a zero impact life, but the flood will still come unless we invest in mitigation and infrastructure.
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#10are Americans producing the most emissions per person? I bet no - so why Americans are singled out?
This is more a question for google than HN in my opinion.
Whether it’s the most depends how you count and there are usually small countries that come in higher.
But US is always near the top in the lists.