Originally Posted by
GenkiSudo
If Australia happened to have the same population size as the USA, they would be even worse than USA...
You should learn a little more about the GHG emissions and role of Australia in the world before making such a conjecture.
Basic understanding of maths wouldn't be bad either.
Originally Posted by
YouaredeaD
so australia is the first one?, didnt know anything about it. I thoght Australia emited a normal quantity of gases
Australia has a relatively small population for the land mass and is also responsible for a large portion of mining goods for the world (china for example). Also we export a lot of beef (the cows are probably the leading producers of GHG in australia which isnt even taken into account).
A similar plant producing similar quantities of product in america would yield the same output of GHG but would look far less impactful per capita.
Power consumption of citizens is a very small part of it, and overall out impact is fairly minimal compared to other global powers (not too sure how much the cows produce but I expect its a lot).
There was actually a petition against the culling of rampant flatulent camels in the centre of australia recently.
Last edited by m0o; Feb 5, 2010 at 12:36 PM.