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First of all, why are you talking about me in third person, like I'm not here? Your comment literally appeared in my inbox.
Secondly, if you have more up to date data, then by all means, feel free to post it. I cited Wikipedia because it was easy to find and reference, but anyone who has ever done research onows primary sources are better.
I'm not here to brigade or pull the wool over your eyes, I'm just having a conversation on a tiny, inconsequential, internet forum
Also, I'm trans, so please don't "he" me
Your link was OK but either you failed to sort / read the numbers, or you intended to mislead assuming most people won't click it.
I've seen this pattern here many times before, on the same issue.
As somebody who worked on this topic sfor thirty years, I can't let a statement like 'China has very low per capita emissions' pass unrefuted. However as you remark, few people here so not worth continuing.
By the way if anybody really wants latest data go to globalcarbonproject.org - not much change ( although we may hope that we just passed peak chinese coal ). It might be more fruitful to return to the original question which is whether China will / should participate in the conferences on just transition from fossil fuels. I'd say yes, so long as there are no vetos in this new process. Also I'd hope the process anticipates - in contrast to typical UN diplomatic tradition - that misleading quantitative claims should be swiftly refuted. We have to start with honesty.
Ok, so I looked at the more recent data you're pointing people towards, and according to that, the US is #11 in per capita emissions, and China is #29.
So a bigger spread than the data on Wikipedia, that I cited earlier
You cited but completely misrepresented the wikipedia link that you sent. Also I wrote about Europe, not US. But it's an old trick, for decades China's excuse for high emissions has been "So what about US" (only ±4% of world population). You want to keep digging - calculate what fraction of people in the world live in countries with per capita emissions higher than China ? I guess about 6%. Edit- sorry maybe 8% as I forgot to add Russia.