/life/sabbatical/Painting Ourselves Red
This image shows the contributions to atmospheric CO2 including land use changes over the period from 1950 to 2000.
The only countries that get a brighter shade are those that are extracting oil for us to burn (itself a carbon-intensive process), or slashing their rainforests to grow beef for us, or, in the height of irony, burning peat bogs to make the way to grow palm oil...for "environmentally friendly" biofuels.. (I'm not actually sure why Guyana is so red. I assume it's dominated by clearcutting and land-use changes, but I can't find anything to back that up.)
