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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What they doin in Mongolia?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Estonia at least is richer than it used to be so probably importing a lot while growing, and that puts it in negative? While sharing our Nordics wasteful way of life of flying to holidays and eating tons of beef and driving everywhere.

But what are they doing in Mongolia? Perhaps it's growing as well, and similar stuff happening? Importing a ton? Idk.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

the second map, with surplus/deficit, is interesting. australia is one of the worst offenders per capita but the land is also one of the biggest carbon sinks apparently.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Mongolia as well. Look at the difference!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The correlation between ecological awareness and ecological damage is really striking.

And it's paralleled at the individual level. People who see themselves as green typically have larger footprints than those who don't - for the simple reason that green-mindedness is correlated with wealth, which is is correlated with damaging habits such as meat diets and flying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interesting that Poland is significantly better than Austria.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Have you lived in Austria? I’d never seen more gas plants in my life…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Mexico, Ukraine, and Brazil are looking good/not-as-bad-as-some-others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yikes. Didnt know sweden was that bad. But given. This image is from 2018 data

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Somehow China despite being one of the largest populations and possibly the biggest manufacturers in the world has a smaller foot print than Switzerland.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Numbers are given in global hectares per capita

It's per capita.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This seems to be per person