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Originally Posted by fatgas

First, I don't consider carbon dioxide to be a pollutant/hazard. Without it, there would be no life on Earth.

Whilst their per capita numbers appear to be low, even if they are accurate they are very quickly catching up to the US and Europe. When that happens (and with the actual nasties they emit like it was going out of fashion), Australia won't even be a statistical margin of error entry.

To be fair, they are pushing to EV/CNG and trying to phase out diesel in a hurry. Just on their food habits (especially India) and China putting in policies around how much meat they consume (God bless their communism), they're putting the brakes on hard. Europe has some sick fetish with diesel (much like we do) and the US just consumes like crazy.

We are tiny on the global scale but I'd hate to see our air quality even remotely get to the levels of US cities or many European cities.