Stamping out the myth behind carbon footprints
Rich countries have a habit of pointing out how emissions from emerging economies such as China and India are increasing rapidly. This is true - but we need to have a closer look at the facts...
Emission levels per head in China and India are far below those in developed countries. In fact, if every country had the same per capita emissions as China, we would be able to cut gobal emissions by 30% below 1990 levels. So which country's people have had the biggest average carbon footprints between 1990 and 2004? Drag the flags onto the feet in the diagram below to find out...
Today in the freezing rain, Oxfam held a live demonstration of the differences between each country's per capita carbon emissions.
All countries must play a part, but with only two days to go, we look to the ministers of rich countries to lead the way in tackling climate change. We do not have the luxury of time.
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open shop doors
Why in this freezing weather do shops still have their doors open? Surely it makes economic sense to shut them with rising heating bills let alone the carbon footprint issue.
In my perspective, Carbon
In my perspective, Carbon footprint is not an accurate way of comparing the carbon emissions for each country. As you may know, There is a portion of the population in each country which does not use electricity (therfore, producing less or no carbon emission). Unless this is taken into account for the carbon footprint, the results would not be that accurate. But, it's a good way of comparison.
Makes no sense
How is a 40 cm long footprint (china) 1/5th of the 2m footprint of USA? The foot print analogy you are using is a measurement of area therefore it is not correct to use scale models where the length of the footprints is only used when clearly the differences are disproportionately skewed. Perhaps a true representation wouldn't have quite as much impact? Even so, lets try to use some very basic geometry Oxfam!
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