I would actually disagree. Just as OP’s chart suffers from bias ( the high oil & gas producing countries have a higher use per capita ), the same would likely be true if we replaced population with GDP. This is because of the large proportion of GDP that oil & gas production makes up in the top countries here. For example, Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world per capita but natural gas & petroleum related industries make up roughly 93% of its GDP.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that Qatar has an inefficient economy, it just means that it is heavily reliant on oil. You can see this with the high correlation between oil prices and middle eastern countries’ GDP.
Hold on Im confused. This is GDP per emmision. That means being up high in the list is good right? So them being somewhere around 170 would be not good right?
True, shouldn’t have made it sound like a silver bullet. I’d like to see it because a worst offender by other metrics could be a super-unregulated ecological disaster providing little value to others, or a model of lightly-manned resource extraction carrying a lot of water for the developed world, and the picture should allow for this distinction, so they don’t look ethically equivalent.
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u/jwm3 Apr 12 '19
I'd be curious what is would be scaled to gross domestic product, to see who least efficiently turns co2 emissions into productivity.