China Emits More Carbon in 16 Days Than Australia Does in One Year

China emits half or less on a per-capita basis than Australia, if you just run the numbers from the headline. Add to this the fact that a whole lot of manufacturing has been outsourced from Australia and other advanced countries to China. This means that despite barely manufacturing the things they were manufacturing, say, 40 years ago, advanced economies have much higher per-capita carbon emissions than China.

The onus is clearly on Australia et. al. here.

Population of China: 1400 million

Population of Australia: 25 million

China has 56 times the population of Australia.

Those 16 days times 56 make 896 days, which is far more than 365 days (a year).

That means that Australians produce 2.45 times more CO2 per capita than Chinese do.

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This means that China emits about 23x more than Australia. But considering that China's population is about 57x larger than Australia's it means that Australia emits much more that China per capita, which is actually an important metric that must go down everywhere in the world, obviously starting by rich countries, which are the ones with high emissions per capita.

Anyway, it's sad to see this 'argument' about China's emissions used again and again for (a) China bashing, and (b) to oppose emission cuts in other countries on the ground that it's useless (as this article does to oppose emission cuts in Australia).

> “Not only should Australia not proceed with a net zero emissions target, but we should withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement,” said Mr Hussey.

I think that says it all.