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Originally Posted by blueash
It really is not fair to look at CO2 per nation as some nations have a whole lot more people than the USA. A fair comparison would be how much CO2 does each person in that nation produce, or tonnes per capita production:
China 6.18
India 1.64
USA 17.5
So each American produced triple that of one in China and 10x that in India. In fact we have the worst, highest, CO2 per person of any developed country
So whatever all those other countries are doing is making each nation more CO2 responsible than each of us.
China is still burning too much coal but has stopped issuing any new permits. It also has invested heavily in clean energy.. you know all those solar panels they make. Additionally a lot of Chinese manufacturing which produces CO2 is making stuff for us.
Which gets back to the assertion that because we "only" make 15% of the pollution what we do is unimportant. Every step in the right direction helps. Just like more fuel efficient cars, water efficient showers, LED lights instead of incandescent (remember all the screaming by some about how we needed to keep our old light bulbs), every act of kindness or charity. Every step helps so why would anyone fight it? But people do. |
I hate hate hate LED lights. My god how I loathe them with every fiber of my being. The light is far too direct and pointed, blinding even if it's aimed downward. They switched from fluorescent to LED back home on the light poles and the light shone in a VERY narrow column straight down. So you'd be driving at the 40mph speed limit and think you were riding through strobe lights. Light dark light dark light dark light dark - very abrupt, very distinctive.
With the older lights, the light was more diffused, the beam was broader and the edges more subtle from one light pole to the next. It was more - light, less light, light, less light.
My flashlight is a bunch of LED bulbs too and I hate it. I want a more subtle wide-angle light, not a sharp brilliant blinding beam.
Fluorescent lights are okay but the color is weird, and they flicker when they get old and take awhile to illuminate when the temperature is cold (such as in a garage in the winter).
Incandescent lights were perfect. I miss them.