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Originally Posted by EAGLE5
Urban, dense living is far more carbon friendly than living in the countryside.
In the countryside, you heat and cool a much larger space, without the benefit of other units insulating your home. You drive to get anywhere, and all deliveries are inefficient. The carbon footprint is dramatically higher.
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My point was more around that, in China, those living outside urbanized areas are typically very poor and are more than likely not living a modern lifestyle where they "contribute" to the items as much. You are correct that is probably not the same as in the US where even those living outside urbanization do contribute.
I'm not arguing the Earth is warming, the data seems to say it is, just as it has done in the past as part of the Earth's cycle. And yes, we Humans are likely contributing to it to one degree or the other.