| > I'm not a fan of China's actions but your post is both mis-informative and ironic given that every one of your points apply to the U.S. at various points in time. It is neither misinformative or ironic, and it's clearly talking about today and in future. > The U.S. produces roughly double the emissions of China per capita. I'm not talking about per capita. Per capita is about the worst metric to use for this, because 1. the environment doesn't care about per capita, it cares about total emissions, and 2. acting like lower per-capita is better creates perverse incentives to increase population and suppress quality of life. Carbon intensity is the relevant metric. > Ignoring population is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. Rubbish. I'm talking about facts that have no relationship to population. > As for bullying neighbours, the U.S. lost both those legs after a long string of funding terrorists, assassinations, and aggressive wars. That doesn't address what I wrote I'm afraid. I never said "China does this and USA does not". > Wikipedia has a quote from Alexander Hamilton: Also irrelevant. America (and almost all the world) had slaves. That doesn't stop me from saying any nation that uses slave labor will never be a leading country and will always be looked down upon, at least until [the use of slave labor] is dismantled. |