I have a real hard time with all these stats. I seriously doubt the "average brit" is responsible for creating 10 tons of CO2 in any time frame short of their entire lifetime. That's 100 times the entire mass of a human male emitted as a gas. A full tank of gas in your average car is only 100 pounds or so and it's not fully converted to CO2 by a long shot. How much CO2 are you responsible for biologically? A few grams? How much was first removed and sequestered by the plants you eat? By the plants eaten by the animals you eat?
I have a real hard time with all these stats. I seriously doubt the "average brit" is responsible for creating 10 tons of CO2 in any time frame short of their entire lifetime. That's 100 times the entire mass of a human male emitted as a gas. A full tank of gas in your average car is only 100 pounds or so and it's not fully converted to CO2 by a long shot. How much CO2 are you responsible for biologically? A few grams? How much was first removed and sequestered by the plants you eat? By the plants eaten by the animals you eat?
This shit is ridiculous.
I believe the way they come to that figure is by taking the total "co2 output" of a country and then dividing that by the population.
Gives you a higher "responsibility" for cow emissions while conveniently removing corporations from the equation.