• Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    This shows that data can be very misleading. Both India and China have huge rural subsistence farming populations that produce virtually no emissions

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      15 days ago

      Yes, and yet the difference between them is a factor of 4.

      Now, I don’t know this source. And I’m always sceptical of infographics. Does this include the fact that many other countries have their manufacturing in China?

      I think this is probably a case where the median gives a far more complete picture than the average.