Hacker News Reader

Just in case people are imagining the uber-wealthy, this is definitionally the world’s wealthiest 800,000,000 people, so probably a lot of “normal” kinds of middle class folks in that cohort. It’s just that the wealthiest industrialized nations are all living very wasteful lifestyles.

View on HN

> It’s just that the wealthiest industrialized nations are all living very wasteful lifestyles.

ourworldindata.org Has a really good infograph on this:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

What is interesting is the large disparity between several industrialized nations.

For example Kuwait, US, Canada, Australia are significantly different from Switzerland, France, Germany, Denmark. And all would technically be considered wealthy industrialized nations.

Within Canada there is considerable variation. Check out provincial statistics on how electricity is generated in each province, and the resulting carbon intensity.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com