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by 1234fdsazxcv 2022 days ago
Emissions per capita are low because a lot of the population lives in poverty outside the city or in the city on the margins. It is not an eco-utopia.
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Even the rich lifestyles are greener than in America

Manufacturing is dirty but then the whole world consumes these goods so that's not only a China problem

The US is free to plunge millions of its own citizens into poverty to take advantage of this "loophole" if it wishes.