Most of China's emissions are for domestic consumption. - [Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions, China](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption-co2-emissions?country=~CHN) - [Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions, United States](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption-co2-emissions?country=~USA) - [Production vs. consumption-based ... emissions, Europe](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption-co2-emissions?country=~Europe) - [Change in production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita, Europe](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?stackMode=relative&time=2000..latest&country=~Europe) - [Change in production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita, Germany](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?stackMode=relative&time=2000..latest&country=~DEU) - [Change ... production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita, United States](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?stackMode=relative&time=2000..latest) - [Change in production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita, China](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?stackMode=relative&time=2000..latest&country=~CHN)

trade, and are still declining. "Technically" or otherwise. - [Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions, China](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption-co2-emissions?country=~CHN) - [Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions, United States](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption-co2-emissions?country=~USA) - [Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions ... Europe](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption-co2-emissions?country=~Europe) - [Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita, China](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?time=2000..latest&country=~CHN) - [Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita, United States](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?time=2000..latest) - [Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions ... capita, Europe](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?time=2000..latest&country=~Europe)

point in an already decreasing trend or an outlier. Longstanding trend. - [Change in annual CO₂ emissions](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?stackMode=relative&time=2000..latest&country=~Europe) - [Change in per capita CO₂ emissions](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=chart&stackMode=relative&time=2000..2020&country=~Europe) - [Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions, Europe ... ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption-co2-emissions?country=~Europe) - [Change in production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita, Europe](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?stackMode=relative&time=2000..latest&country=~Europe)

into birthrates. The things demographers have found most track with birthrate declines are here: - https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-change-in-the-number-of-children-women-have Poverty correlates with *higher* birthrates, not lower. Universal healthcare or lower income inequality also don't correlate with ... higher birthrates. Even the Scandinavian countries have low birthrates. - [Fertility rate: children per woman](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-un?tab=chart&time=1950..latest&country=OWID_WRL~SVK~SVN~BLR~ARM~CZE~UKR~ARE~MDA~ISL~AZE) for countries with the [lowest income inequality](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/income-inequality-by-country). - [Fertility rate: children per woman](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-un?tab=chart&time=1970..latest&country=AUT~AUS~BEL~CAN~CYP~DNK~FIN~FRA~DEU~GRC~HKG~ISL~IRL~ISR~ITA~JPN~LUX~NLD~NZL~NOR~PRT~SGP~SVN~KOR~ESP~SWE~CHE~GBR) ... countries with some version of universal healthcare) - [Fertility rate: children per woman](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-un?tab=chart&time=1950..latest&country=DNK~NOR~SWE~FRA~BEL~NLD~DEU) (For Scandinavia, France, and a few other W. European countries

doubled the nuclear power output since 1998. Here is how the share of [low-carbon electricity](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-low-carbon?tab=chart&time=2000..latest&country=European+Union+%2827%29+%28Ember%29~RUS) developed respectively over the past 20 years. In the EU it increased from ... share in Russia, and a 25.6% growth in the EU. Consumption of [gas for primary energy](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?stackMode=absolute&time=2000..latest&country=~European+Union+%2827%29) peaked in the EU in 2010 before Fukushima at 4,228 TWh. It's use declined ... decreased its nuclear power output since 2010, [Russia increased it](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?stackMode=absolute&time=2000..latest&country=~RUS) (in terms of primary energy from 454 TWh in 2010 to 558 TWh in 2021). But Russia also increased its gas consumption

former cattle ranches. - https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2021/dec/percent-change-county-population.html (all of those orange areas lost population from 2010-2020) - https://ourworldindata.org/urbanization - [Number of people living in urban and rural areas, European Union](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/urban-and-rural-population?country=~European+Union) - [Number ... people living in urban and rural areas, United Kingdom](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/urban-and-rural-population?time=2000..latest&country=~GBR) - [Number of people living in urban and rural areas, United States](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/urban-and-rural-population?country=~USA) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_flight Cities and suburbs are growing more

year-olds v[accinated against rebulla improved globally from 21% in 2000 to 66% by 2021](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/rubella-vaccination-coverage). The good news is that vaccination coverage has improved dramatically in a little over three decades ... percentage of global one-year-olds immunized against a particular disease improved from 20% to 80%](https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination). Progress forward isn't; however, progress completed, and many children globally still lack access to basic ... vaccination. [Just 35% of global children have been vaccinated against rotavirus and just 47% against pneumonia.](https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination#prosperity-and-vaccination-coverage)

looking at expected total generation rather than name plate capacity. - [Solar energy generation vs. installed capacity](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-energy-consumption-vs-solar-pv-capacity) - [Wind energy generation vs. installed capacity](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/wind-energy-consumption-vs-installed-wind-energy-capacity) - [Change in electricity production by source, United ... States](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-production-by-source?stackMode=relative&time=2011..latest&country=~USA)

mentioning that nameplate capacity is not the same as generation: - [Solar energy generation vs. installed capacity](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-energy-consumption-vs-solar-pv-capacity) - [Wind energy generation vs. installed capacity](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/wind-energy-consumption-vs-installed-wind-energy-capacity) So we can sort of predict from ... there not more nuclear? Cost and build times. [Here's just one decade](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-production-by-source?stackMode=relative&time=2010..latest&country=~USA) of generation changes in the US. Solar and wind are ramping at very high rates around the world

Most of China's emissions are for domestic consumption. - [Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions, China](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption-co2-emissions?country=~CHN) - [Production vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions, United States](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption-co2-emissions?country=~USA) - [Production vs. consumption-based ... emissions, Europe](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption-co2-emissions?country=~Europe) And they are installing renewables hand-over fist. Their emissions are still increasing (though they may be very close to plateauing) because their overall demand is increasing still faster than

living standards for one of the world's poorest developing countries. The [maternal mortality ratio](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/maternal-mortality?tab=chart&country=~BGD) and the [child mortality rate](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality?country=~BGD) have plummeted, while life expectancy has increased dramatically, [from ... years in 1950 to 73 years in 2022](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart&time=1900..latest&country=OWID_WRL~BGD), overtaking even the global average. Driving many living standards has been the country's economic growth and a [per person (GDP/capita, PPP$ inflation-adjusted

HIV/AIDS, early intervention, and treatment are helping drive down the [prevalence of new infections and deaths](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-and-new-cases-of-hiv) while improving the quality of life for millions. [Deaths from HIV/AIDs peaked ... that number has fallen by 52%, to roughly 863,000, and continues to decline slowly.](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-from-hiv-by-age) Dive into the full data on the [Our World in Data page on HIV/AIDS](https://ourworldindata.org/hiv-aids).

HIV/AIDS, early intervention, and treatment are helping drive down the [prevalence of new infections and deaths](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-and-new-cases-of-hiv) while improving the quality of life for millions. [Deaths from HIV/AIDs peaked ... that number has fallen by 52%, to roughly 863,000, and continues to decline slowly.](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-from-hiv-by-age) Dive into the full data on the [Our World in Data page on HIV/AIDS](https://ourworldindata.org/hiv-aids).

water-efficient), but people ain't giving up their beef burgers and steaks for anything. https://ourworldindata.org/land-use https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

microbes into submission, [antibiotic resistance](https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/biology/fears-about-antibiotic-resistance-have-opened-up-a-can-of-germs/) remains an ongoing challenge, [particularly in livestock](https://ourworldindata.org/antibiotic-resistance-from-livestock). While it's early days for discoveries like this, some of which may take decades to reach ... market, it shows that our [improving mastery of genome sequencing](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-per-megabase-mb-of-human-genome-dna-sequencing) is generating tangible innovation with future potential

www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2021/09/20/Cell-cultured-coffee-developed-in-Europe-We-have-proved-lab-grown-coffee-can-be-a-reality#), with cellular agriculture. - [Dietary compositions by commodity group, United States, 1961 to 2013](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/dietary-compositions-by-commodity-group) - [Global agricultural land use by major crop type](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-agricultural-land-use-by-major-crop-type)

know that those Chinese nuclear plants [amount to](https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/china#how-much-of-the-country-s-electricity-comes-from-nuclear-power) **5%** of their electricity needs, right? If anything, the US **already** has about [twice as many reactors](https://www.statista.com/statistics/267158/number-of-nuclear-reactors-in-operation-by-country/) as China and more ... than anyone else in the world - yet those are just [18%](https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/united-states#how-much-of-the-country-s-electricity-comes-from-nuclear-power) of the US' electricity. A fully/mostly nuclear grid in the US is always presented as if it's a matter

ourworldindata.org/grapher/inequality-of-incomes-before-and-after-taxes-and-transfers?country=GBR\~DEU\~ESP\~CAN\~AUT](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/inequality-of-incomes-before-and-after-taxes-and-transfers?country=GBR~DEU~ESP~CAN~AUT) random selection, a lot of countries don't have much data. The graph you linked doesn't exactly slope up for many countries, overall

Data source: [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/space-objects-by-orbit?country=High+Earth+orbit\~Geostationary+orbit\~Medium+Earth+orbit\~Low+Earth+orbit](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/space-objects-by-orbit?country=High+Earth+orbit~Geostationary+orbit~Medium+Earth+orbit~Low+Earth+orbit) Made with excel and Adobe Cloud programs

bare for all to see. Edit: I assume this is your source for that 2% https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade While the article is indeed well researched, it doesn't address where the plastics in the ocean ... Europe, Japan, and North America still ship more than 4M tonnes of plastic to Asian countries. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2022/10/Plastic-waste-trade-sankey-1536x1175.png The 970k tonnes fits very well inside that 4M tonnes

microbes into submission, [antibiotic resistance](https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/biology/fears-about-antibiotic-resistance-have-opened-up-a-can-of-germs/) remains an ongoing challenge, [particularly in livestock](https://ourworldindata.org/antibiotic-resistance-from-livestock). While it's early days for discoveries like this, some of which may take decades to reach ... market, it shows that our [improving mastery of genome sequencing](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-per-megabase-mb-of-human-genome-dna-sequencing) is generating tangible innovation with future potential. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/y1n4aw/new_antibiotic_hiding_in_diseased_potatoes/irybed4/

include the others, renewables had a [share of 38.6% in 2022 in the EU](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-renewables?tab=chart&country=~European+Union+%2827%29+%28Ember%29). 22% are just wind+solar, so I think that this article solely refers to those and their doubling ... increased its [solar share](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-solar?tab=chart&country=~European+Union+%2827%29+%28Ember%29) from 3.33% in 2014 to 7.27% in 2022 in the course of eight years. And it's wind share from 7.86% to 15.01%. So, a doubling over

reason that China would be exempt from this longstanding trend. - [Total primary energy use](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/primary-energy-cons?tab=chart&time=2000..latest&country=USA%7EDEU%7EGBR%7EJPN%7EHKG%7EITA%7EFRA%7EESP%7EAUS%7ECHE%7ENOR%7EPOL%7EPRT%7ECAN%7EMEX) - [Energy Use per Person](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab=chart&time=1999..latest&country=USA~DEU~GBR~JPN~HKG~ITA~FRA~ESP~AUS~CHE~NOR~POL~PRT~CAN~MEX) (Note the *decline* in most of these countries. That

that anyway. In either case the share of electricity from [low-carbon sources](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-low-carbon?tab=chart&country=DEU~USA~OWID_WRL~CHN) is steadily increasing, driven primarily by [renewables](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-renewables?tab=chart&country=DEU~USA~OWID_WRL~CHN). At the moment about 90% of new capacity

real world a better, more fair and just place for ourselves, collectively. [Raise the living standard](https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts), [make education available to more people](https://ourworldindata.org/global-education), [lower the crime rate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_drop),

discussion here and people use actual data instead of hearsay. Germanys nuclear phaseout looks like this: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked?time=2000..latest&country=\~DEU They roughly halved coal usage since the nuclear phaseout began and replaced both with renewables ... comparison here is the us: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked?time=2000..latest&country=~USA They also roughly halved coal usage ... and replaced it with gas. Notice the difference

well, to look at all low-carbon sources. - [Share of electricity from low-carbon sources](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-low-carbon?tab=chart&country=DEU~USA~OWID_WRL~CHN~Europe) China is climbing, but hasn't matched the US yet, much less Europe. Also interesting: - [Carbon intensity ... electricity, 2000 to 2021](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electricity?tab=chart&country=CHN~OWID_WRL~USA~Europe~IND)

overall the environmental impact of German energy policy has been getting worse. [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=\~DEU](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=~DEU) this is just demonstrably untrue. 2020 is simply not representative due to industry shutting down

leading driver of deforestation in both [the Amazon](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/drivers-forest-loss-brazil-amazon) and [in general for tropical forests](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/125012) is beef, while [77% of soy is used as animal feed](https://ourworldindata.org/soy#more-than-three-quarters-of-global-soy-is-fed-to-animals)

carbon energy, due to its preexisting nuclear plants. - [Share of primary energy from low-carbon sources](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/low-carbon-share-energy?tab=chart&country=CHN~USA~OWID_WRL~JPN~Europe~DEU) - [Share of electricity from low-carbon sources](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-low-carbon?tab=chart&country=CHN~USA~OWID_WRL~JPN~Europe~DEU)

less children or no children. Keep empowering women and ensuring they have robust access to contraceptives. https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-change-in-the-number-of-children-women-have

prerequisite. >“On what principle is it, that [when we see nothing but improvement behind us](https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts), we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?” — Thomas Babington Macaulay, Review of Southey

alternative will be more damaging than palm oil. Interesting coverage of that here, with some data. https://ourworldindata.org/palm-oil#palm-oil-versus-the-alternatives

ready to replace 100% of fossil fuels so nuclear is needed as well. [This](https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/08/Global-primary-energy-by-source.png) is the worlds current energy mix. This was published in 2019, unfortunately it went largely unnoticed: >”these

same volume of oil from other sources will consume [up to 20 times the land](https://ourworldindata.org/palm-oil) while depriving the local community of their livelihood. At the end of the day, I think immediate

could say this about any energy source. [Nuclear energy](https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy) is one of the safest forms of energy

there are so many news on it. You can see the historic price development graph here: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline And btw, for photovoltaic and wind energy, the price development looks fairly similar

aging population with a high life expectancy. On average, cancer is still a [\+50 disease](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-death-rates-by-age). The fact that we're still making progress with an aging population is indicative of more progress

submission statement was provided by /u/tonymmorley: --- The good news: [Five-year survival rates have increased globally](https://ourworldindata.org/cancer#five-year-survival-rates-have-increased). Between 1970 to 2013, five-year survival rates have increased from roughly