What does that have to do with GDP being the correct unit?

Do you have anything to back up that opinion?

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Is it that the people in charge of chinese policy are making poor decisions w/respect to emissions? They aren't. They are doing better than our leaders are, crafting a policy that emits less per person than ours does.

Industrial policy doesn't emit any carbon. The people implementing the policies do. And in this case, those people, even when implementing the CCP's policies, emit less carbon per capita than people in the US or the EU when they implement the policies their institutions (public and private) have come up with.

I thought it was obvious I don't think that. I think the current levels are too low.

This might surprise you, but China is composed entirely of the people living there.

Who cares? Nit-picking about "displacing" vs "supplementing" is moronic and none of your stats are per-capita. As if we could solve the problem by splitting china up into 50 smaller countries so that none of them end up in the top 100 emitters.

Na, I'm just a guy who thinks we should fund the projects our reps signed into law, and that law enforcement is especially underfunded. I'm not talking about increased activity due to low friction. I'm talking about increased activity due to increased productivity in the private sector.

Digitizing so you can serve a digitized population is not going to reduce the headcount you need. Business and citizens are doing more, requiring more services, regulation, and plain old police work. That's without even taking into consideration people's increased expectations about what level of service they should get from their government, constantly comparing it to private sector levels of service.

Lol, are you sure Finland and Sweden have this insane way to determine the price?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodenergy.co.uk%2Fblog%2Fwhy-does-the-price-of-gas-drive-electricity-prices%2F

Prices in the UK are based on the most expensive kW to make, not the average. This creates a perverse incentive to delay building cheaper renewables because you want to always run out of them so you can charge a higher price.

Wrong. Virtually no government agency's staffing levels have kept pace with population growth. Total federal government employees per capita now is half of what it was in the 60's 70's and 80's. Folks on the far left say we should defund the police? Guess what.. we already did.

Twitter accounts are press. Not only are they press in a 4th estate sort of way, they are also press in the "content duplication machine" kind of way. Any way you slice it, they are press.

hackathons are leisure activities, and gluing together libraries isn't fun.

"I didn't even have to take a programming class"
(starts offering a vibe coding class)

This is why it's important to know your audience.