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
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
I don't think that's true. I made the prediction, after that healthcare CEO got shot, that Stochastic Political Assassinations would be the hip new thing, and I think this past year has proven me right.
It's a proxy server that works kind of like an Advanced version of the Wayback Machine. So old PCs like this, can connect to something like what the internet would've been like when they were first made.
I have the Protoweb browser on my Linux mint machine, running through wine. It's fun to poke around at, and great for internet archaeology
As an ML, I'm quite fond of other leftists, thank you very much.
While we might have our disagreements, some of them quite stark, I still get along with my Trotskyist or Anarchist friends, and their struggles are also my struggle. I might disagree with how they're going about it, but that's what critical support is for.
That's because the west exported all of its manufacturing there.
China is among the highest in raw carbon emissions, but has an extremely low per-capita emissions rate. Compared to the US, who's per-capita emissions rate is among the highest in the world.
Plus, China is making a sharp pivot towards the development of renewable energy, electric vehicles, and transit oriented development.
And the global supply chain its been building, whatever one might think of the Belt and Road initiative, allows them to cheaply sell things like solar panels and rail infrastructure back to the countries supplying them with raw materials. Allowing those countries to electrify in such a way as to skip over more carbon heavy forms of power generation.
There's context here, and saying "But China burns so much coal!" doesn't tell the whole story. They're not burning it in a vacuum, for funsies.
While Maduro himself isn't a very well liked leader, his party, the PSUV, and the social movement base that put Hugo Chavez and the PSUV into power to begin with, is very popular.
And that social movement base is made up of a network of communes and neighborhood committees which run their own infrastructure, train cadre, operate people's militias, etc. In addition to the traditional, top-down organs of the Venezuelan military.
Plus, the opposition is even more unpopular than Maduro, within the country, and can't even scrounge up anyone to represent them politically. Sure, right now it's Machado, but does anyone remember Juan Guaido? A man that the US arbitrarily recognized as the real president of Venezuela, despite 80% of Venezuelans having never heard of him?
That's much more significant than Sadam, who's Baath party had no real social base by 2003, and was highly disconnected from the interests of most Iraqis.
Not to Mention that the geography is very different. Iraq, save for the northern mountains, is very flat. While Venezuela is very mountainous. The coasts aren't flat, easy to land on, beaches. They're giant mountains which give a lot of cover from naval artillery, and the rugged terrain means insurgents in the mountains who are nigh impossible to root out.
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