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Per capita emissions do not accurately demonstrate total annual emissions amounts, but the average headline reader doesn't understand that, making this infographic only partially useful.
It's called multiplication...
And then division.
Also subtraction, in the case of less corrupt politicians
"This chart doesn't properly convey the information it's not designed to convey!"
Thanks for your input.
What woild you say shows better what the emissions of one person living in a country are?
Because that's the only number you can use for comparing countries. The climate won't be aaved by splitting China into one hundred independent countries. The largest producer of greenhouse gases would disappear from the statistics, but nothing about how much if those gases there are in the atmosphere would be chsnged.