[reissbaker]

To be fair the US is a bigger problem than India, and is only a smaller problem than China by virtue of having a far smaller population. The US is the second largest source of CO2 emissions in the world, and per capita is higher than both of those countries.

However, building these technologies may help everyone reduce net CO2 emissions.

[the-smug-one]

USA has close to a double per capita emission of CO2 compared to China. If you're worried about total emissions by a country, then I have a great proposal in which we divide China in 10 countries to effectively make their CO2 emissions completely irrelevant!

[Klwohu]

The US is absolutely nowhere near India's carbon emissions, nor China's. And none of the famously popular proposals such as Paris even address it.

It's cool, they already serve as our garbage dumps and contain the toxic waste that fuels your iPhone. Just saying the USA isn't anywhere near the peak of the problem.

[porb121]

why would you say things that are so easily disproven with a 30sec google search?

in 2017, the US emitted 5Gt, the EU 3.5, and india 2.5. india's also got a billion more people than the US.

to make matters worse, these are attributional, not consumptive emissions. that is, if a US consumer orders a product made in india, the emissions from the creation of that product are attributed to india, and the emissions from shipping it are attributed to a global shipping counter. even though US demand and US consumption are responsible for those emissions, US emissions don't increase.

[j8014]

It looks like 2020 was China 11.5, USA 5.1, India 2.5.

The biggest thing to note is both China and India are INCREASING every year.

[Klwohu]

Heh I wonder why you picked that year?

[porb121]

It was the most recent on Wikipedia.