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> real polluters (India, China)

Per capita CO2 emissions of

    India    China   US     UK
    2.07     9.24    13.83  4.42
US's per capita annual CO2 emission is 285% of that of global average, while India's is 43%.

The amount of carbon you emit to go to the groceries is probably equal to produce all my groceries for a week.



Not to mention what's China doing with its CO2 emissions: making laptops, phones, cheap toys for USA and Europe...


Yes. Much of US's production has shifted to China and other Asian countries.

So, if you factor in consumption as well as production, the Western world does even worse in terms of responsibility for CO2 production.




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