Right or Wrong, My Countryman Miss Thunberg is Not an Idiot

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Right or Wrong, My Countryman Miss Thunberg is Not an Idiot · New blog on the kid: Speaking of Sweden, Thunberg ...

If anyone thinks I should have considered her my "countrywoman" she's a girl, not yet married and "countryman" uses the older sense of "man" as synonym not of Swedish "man" but of Swedish "menniska" ... even happens in Swedish, as with "ombudsman"

Annoying bucket of ego!’ Jeremy Clarkson blasts BBC for ‘fawning’ over Greta Thunberg
Celebrity Mark | 25 sept. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_KkZQVrdw

In 2023, China produced 35% of global CO 2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_China

2023, populations,
China:
1,422,584,933
World:
8,091,734,930

1,422,584,933 / 8,091,734,930 = 17.58 %

US:
343,477,335
World:
8,091,734,930

343,477,335 / 8,091,734,930 = 4.24 %

Emissions, biggest 3, in percent of world* emissions:

1 China 32.88%
2 United States 12.60%
3 India 6.99%

That was one year earlier, 2022.

35 / 17.58 = 1.99 times "fair share"
12.6 / 4.24 = 2.97 times "fair share"

India:
1,438,069,596
World:
8,091,734,930

1,438,069,596 / 8,091,734,930 = 17.77

6.99 / 17.77 = 0.39 times "fair share"

Let's compare a list of four big emitters with a list of many emitters where Thunberg might be heard, US being on both lists.

China, US, India, Russia = 57.43 % of emissions

Australia 1.02%** Canada 1.51% United States 12.60% South Korea 1.65% Taiwan 0.72% Czech Republic (Czechia) 0.26% Singapore 0.14% Japan 2.81% Poland 0.84% Germany 1.75% Malaysia 0.72% Belgium 0.23% Norway 0.11% Netherlands 0.35% Ireland 0.10% Israel 0.16%

Austria 0.16% Finland 0.10% South Africa 1.05% Greece 0.15% Italy 0.84% Spain 0.66% United Kingdom 0.88% Hungary 0.12% France 0.82% Chile 0.24% Argentina 0.48% Romania 0.20% Portugal 0.11% Mexico 1.27% Sweden 0.10%

32.15 % of emissions

The Thunberg friendly list stands for less emissions than the big four list, but not all that much less, it's more than half.

* CO2 Emissions by Country (2022)
https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/

** The list is in descending order of per capita emissions, and leaving out any country having less than 0.1 % of the world's emissions, as well as such former East Block countries (or for China and Vietnam present Communist ones) and Muslim countries that would be unlikely to heed Miss Thunberg.