Who Is Responsible For Global Warming?
The evidences of global warming are all around us.
In the Antarctic, ice sheets the size of countries are falling and melting into the
ocean. In the Arctic, the ice is melting so fast that Canada and Russia are
jostling over the rights to the new sea routes being created.
In the other continents, including North America, unprecedentedly high temperatures are igniting and
fanning record numbers of fires and giving rise to extreme weather patterns unseen since record keeping
began.
Who is responsible for global warming? Is it the Chinese?
The pie chart above shows that the Chinese are responsible for 30% of the global
warming from burning fossil fuels. China is by far the world's largest
contributor to global warming, and contributes twice as much as the second
largest contributor, the United States.
But
a closer look at the historical data indicates that the heavy contribution to
global warming by China, a newly industrialized nation, is a relatively recent
phenomenon. The chart on the right shows that China is responsible for only 8%
of the cumulative carbon dioxide emissions, with the United States and the EU
combining for 56% of the cumulative carbon dioxide emissions since
1850.
So who is responsible for global warming?
It's all of us.
For one, we are growing exponentially. In 1804, the earth had 1 billion people.
It doubled to 2 billion by 1927, and doubled again to 4 billion by 1974. Now at
7 billion, the earth's population is 700% of what it used to be just 200 years
ago.
For another, each of us are burning more fossil fuels than we did 200 years ago,
and everyone except the scientists on oil companies' payroll acknowledges
global warming and points to carbon
dioxide emission from burning gasoline and other fossil fuels, including from
the 1.4 billion cars in the world, as the top driver
of the present rise.
Global warming is no longer some academic topic for scientists to
debate. It is real, it is here, and it's going to wreak havoc on us and our
children unless we take immediate, concrete actions, starting with something as
simple as putting air in under-inflated tires.
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