China Tells

China has been long critisized as the biggest CO2 emission producer, particularly by OECD countries lead by USA. It is backed by the statistics that China’s CO2 emission is now world’s No.1 in total (See graph). According to vaious sources, China’s CO2 emission is either above or below that of USA’s. The two country’s emission add up to about 40% of world’s total output. However, a fact that can not be ignored is that China has much bigger population than USA, and most other countries. Based on the CO2 emission per capita, China falls far from America, which is the biggest in the world, and other industrialized countries, such as Canada, EU, Japan and South Korea. The world’s average CO2 emission per capita is about 4.24 metric tons per head. Among the top ten world’s CO2 emission countries, only India is below that level and China is barely over. All the rest far exceeds the world average.

中国经常被西方媒体指责是地球污染的罪魁祸首。根据06年的数据，中国的二氧化碳排放量和美国差不多不相上下，并列世界第一和二大二氧化碳排放国家。但是中国的人口要远远多于美国。如果将二氧化碳排放量平均到每个人头上，中国的人均排放量远远低于美国，也低于其他很多国家，比如加拿大，日本和德国等等。美国无论是总量还是人均都稳居世界第一，因此要改善世界环境老美非要以身作则不可。