Nov 14

 Two cold sores for the price of one.

Not an unknown thing for me these days. Once upon a time I never got them. Sailed through my life unafflicted.

Now. With spurious health. And a very suspect immune system. The buggers make a semi regular appearance giving a reminder that yeah, your body is not doing well in that war my friend.

Ah well.

Athena is doing good today. The shot seems to have given her quite a bit of zoom this time. Interesting. Perhaps the dose is once again not quite enough for a month. Getting older. Creakier. Maybe it was just a duff month. But overall she's been doing really well. Something to keep an eye on. Maybe there is room for another dose bump. Or less happier. Additional meds to keep the pains at bay.

I checked out some CO2 data the other day for the various countries in the world. Interesting stuff. And it gets somewhat complicated because there's a difference between how much CO2 you are pushing out. And how much CO2 per person ( per capita ) you are pushing out. If you have three times as much people in your country, it stands to reason you're probably going to be pushing out three times as much CO2. Which is where it all gets complicated. Because no two places are alike. But there's other interesting data in there too.

Things like. The UK has backpedalled its CO2 emissions to be on par with what it was around the 1960's. Bad. But. Pretty cool. Also, as it turns out, the UK is one of the leaders of the charge in doing good with CO2. Better than the EU on the whole. Although dirty dirty Germany tends to weigh the EU down.

The big elephants in the room are China and India. China has a massive CO2 output. Largely because historically it didn't care, lots of very inefficient processes belching out crap. And also, it's a large body of people making an even larger body of goods for the rest of the world. But China is making progress with its CO2 output and currently is aiming for a net zero by 2060. Last year actually saw a very very modest reduction in CO2. Too late ? Probably. India is a different but related story. Their emissions are going through the roof. And they don't seem to give much of a shit beyond get rich quick. Their emissions last year grew quite a lot. Also with the ( likely at this point in time ) biggest population on the planet, their impact is rapidly becoming the most important one. Put China and India together, and you have one third of the problem - which on a per capita basis is about right, as together they are just over a quarter of the world population, but, given that most of their population is not industrialised, you realise the ratio is way worse than that. Way way worse. And that the future looks terrible India wise.

The US also stands out as terrible. Sandwiched neatly between China and India. Overall it's "only" some 14% of the problem. But given per capita it's pretty dire. One fifth of the population of China - the worlds worst outputter of CO2, but only one half of the CO2 output, making it the second worst CO2 emitter in the world. In per capita terms. That makes the US twice the problem that China is.

Anywho. Go check it out if you're interested. Data from 2016 here in an easy to read table -

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/

And generally more up to date data ( it varies ) in a variety for forms here -

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

Also note the hilarious pandemic CO2 drop. A sudden spike down. But not as big as you think it might be.



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