• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Yeah, at this rate we’ll be just fine. (As long as this is still the Reagan administration.)

    • ikt@aussie.zone
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      22 hours ago

      yep the biggest worry isn’t AI, it’s India

      https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/india-co2-emissions/

      The west is lowering its co2 output while India is slurping up all the co2 we’re saving:

      This doesn’t include China of course, the most egregious of the co2 emitters

      AI is not even a tiny blip on that radar, especially as AI is in data centres and devices which runs on electricity so the more your country goes to renewables the less co2 impacting it is over time

      • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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        20 hours ago

        Could you add the US to the graphs, as EU and West are hardly synonymous - even as it descends into Trumpgardia.

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          17 hours ago

          China has that massive rate because it manufactures for the US, the US itself is a huge polluter for military and luxury NOT manufacturing

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            14 hours ago

            Still the second largest CO2 emitter, so it’d make sense to put it on for the comparison.

      • zedcell@lemmygrad.ml
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        15 hours ago

        Now break that shit down per capita, and also try and account for the fact that China is a huge manufacturing hub for the entire world’s consumption, you jackass.