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benjhm

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benjhm ,

Sure, she's right, more people in Belarus voted for her than Lukas* and his pals, they shouldn't suffer for p's tricks, although it seems to me the majority are rather too passive (with some great exceptions, of course).
Anyway isn't there another factor here - are there still long freight trains with chinese containers frequently arriving in Brest? If not, how else are they getting to europe? If so, I'd guess both belarus railways and polish lorry drivers get a lot of money out of that trade, isn't that a factor of leverage ?
Belarus is good at trains, I hope not so far in the future we'll see them run again from Odesa to Riga via Minsk, and with people free to move.

benjhm ,

Emissions per capita of China have been higher than the european average for about a decade now.

benjhm ,

Yes they invested enormously in high-speed train lines. But look on satellite image around those train stations, new city blocks have massive roads everywhere, 5 lanes in each direction, plus in parallel another set of toll roads. Even if those roads were empty , the cement and steel for all that has contributed enormous quantity of CO2 to the atmosphere.
Chinese emissions per capita are higher than european average for many years now, however they always pick the worst country in the world for comparison statistics.

benjhm ,

You are right, it’s simple numbers, scientific fact, pity so much downvotes, people should check recent data rather than get stuck with old concepts from 1990s (when climate politics began).

benjhm ,

lopq's original comment is correct for 'whole west' too. the second part is also true per capita.
By the way europe also has a lot more people than united states, it's not irrelevant.

benjhm ,

As it happens I've been calculating per capita emissions for 28 years, since COP2.
You can see my model here.
No I certainly don't include Russia nor Turkey, although europe is more than EU. Korea is indeed notable.
Regarding what they call 'consumption emissions', you can get such data from Global Carbon Project, on that I'm less an expert but my hunch is that industry emissions are dominated by heavy products like steel and cement for construction (made with help of gigatons of coal), rather than light consumer goods for export. Over-construction is the root of the problem, global emissions will peak (maybe now) as that bubble bursts.

benjhm ,

Vivaldi recently posted this -vivaldi-wont-allow-a-machine-to-lie-to-you.
See also vivaldi community

benjhm ,

The problem is that whatever careful process EU implements to restrict spread of fake news etc., authoritarian states will copy its facade and terminology, to justify their own censorship of real news ( in Russia people go to prison for calling a war a war).

benjhm ,

My boys have chromebooks, it’s almost mandatory for school now, and I get why teachers need the whole class to have a similar locally-networked tool. Problem is we as parents can't set anything, as we don't have 'developer' access, and the school controls their accounts. So at home, they do stupid stuff. The hardware is ok, I wish it was just linux.
About what google gets - I doubt the current data is so valuable, they play a long game hoping to lock young people into their ecosystem, to profit from people with cash/energy in their 20s.

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