Who Burned the World? 200 Years of CO₂ 🏭

Añadido: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]Every ton [music] of carbon ever burned is still up there and one country pulled away from everyone.

[00:00:06]Britain runs eight of every 10 steam engines on Earth, coal-firing Lancashire's looms and the trains to Liverpool.

[00:00:12]One small island, half the world's emissions.

[00:00:15]The American factory outruns the British one, Pittsburgh's furnaces burning day and night, Texas oil flooding the railroads, Ford building the cars that burn the gasoline.

[00:00:25]Soviet plans burn lignite across Siberia while Japanese and German industry runs lean.

[00:00:31]Europe's emissions crest and plateau, Americans still burn most per person.

[00:00:36]300 million Chinese leave farms for factories, a new coal plant firing almost weekly.

[00:00:41]The factory of [music] the world is now burning the fuel of the world and the chart crosses.

[00:00:46]China now emits more than the next two together.

[00:00:50]The first polluters are cutting back while the last to industrialize [music] climb fastest even as China builds more solar than anyone alive.

[00:00:57]The first countries to pollute have started to stop. The ones that industrialize last are paying the bill now.

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