The Top 20 Planet Wrecker Countries by Expansion Emissions 2023 - 2050
The Top 20 Planet Wrecker Countries by Expansion Emissions 2023 - 2050
This is obivously not the actual point of the map, but why have a bunch of countries in Central Africa merged? It looks like Angola, both Congos, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea
I didn't notice, good catch. I wonder if it is an aliasing/resolution issue.
They are actually there in the report... but barely. They're much lighter than every other border. It doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere so I assume it was just a mistake
Talking about "planet wreckers" but leaving out coal is either incredibly stupid or deceitful. Nevermind that consumption is where the blame should be laid, not production.
This map, but for coal, tells a far worse story.
This map is about future oil and gas expansion. You can see the list of countries by past and present coal production here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_production
This is so niche... Not current production, not future production, not emissions, just the difference between production now and production later seemingly designed to give the middle east and Venezuela a pass because they're already producing a crazy amount
The US is the biggest producer now ahead of Russia and Saudi Arabia, Venezuela is at 21st. This post is about future production expansion.
Let's not pretend Guyana are as bad as Mexico, Nigeria and Kazakhstan though
So the consumers of oil are good. Just the producers are bad. This is the boogeyman in map form.
The US is also the biggest consumer ahead of China.
The Exxon defender has logged on
It's essentially a map of big countries (population, territory, population density...)
This map would be way more interesting if it was normalized per capita or some other meaningful denominator. Only then does it make sense to point fingers.
China and India have 5 times the population of the USA, and yet are 1 order of magnitude or more below the USA. You're not making sense here
It's about future oil and gas expansion (FOGE), what matters to the atmosphere is the total - identifying potential threat. Effectively multiplying FOGE by area (as shown) doesn't make sense, but neither does FOGE per capita (as most is exported, not consumed locally). I'd suggest just a sized blob for each country - then can show some other dimension with the color.