[gedy]

I agree "per capita" can be misleading, but China and India are growing faster than the US, and China is outputting more CO2 than the US.

[amanaplanacanal]

China has a lot more people than the US, and they do a lot of the US's manufacturing too.

Many people think that the US should not try to cut carbon emissions because China swamps us in this. I strongly disagree with that.

[gedy]

The thing is: we are cutting emissions, but it probably won’t save the planet, if China and India keep growing. The “fairness“ of per capita usage is a separate issue from climate change