Isramart : Illinois Carbon Emissions in Global Perspective

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Did you know? The carbon emissions of Illinois and Indiana combined are roughly equal to the total emissions of Italy!

How is that possible? It doesn't tell the whole story, but this map from The Sightline Institute is an interesting way of thinking about how our local climate emissions stack up to the rest of the world.

The Sightline folks took an average of the emissions per capita between 2001 and 2003 from around the world, and looked for parallels between US states and foreign countries. They found that Illinois and Indiana, two states that combined had about 18.8 million people during that period, were producing as much greenhouse gas as the roughly 58 million people in Italy. (See the complete table here.)

The Sightline Institute found that the entire US population (which was only about 290 million in 2003) was producing as much greenhouse gas emissions as 1.5 billion people in other countries around the world.