Makes me think of the classic yes minister national service scene, https://youtu.be/ahgjEjJkZks

Yeah, and not like it needs to eat radiation to be successful, all it has to do is survive in a place where everything else dies, and suddenly it has no competitors or predators, and is free to grow explosively.

Your image shows US as 434 billion and china as 285, which is a smaller gap than my source, but not completely different. It’s weird it’s not listed in order.

My source is:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-are-historically-responsible-for-climate-change/

As far as I know carbon brief are well respected and not a Chinese puppet, but I admit I that doesn’t mean they’re completely correct.

Edit: I see now that’s a little out of date. 2021.

They have an updated one from 2024, https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-have-now-caused-more-global-warming-than-eu/

Which doesn’t change my original assertion about the US having higher cumulative emissions, but does change the scale of the difference a bit, and discusses whether China will ever overtake the US (looks like it might be a toss up)

Worth noting the US is still ahead on total cumulative emissions, and if you adjust per capita (which is only fair), China doesn’t even hit the top 20.

Meanwhile, they installed more solar than the rest of the world combined last year.

Like, I’m not absolving them, they could be doing more, but right now they’re embarrassing us on how fast they’re pivoting.