[orangepurple]

Americans are saints when it comes to environmental destruction. Many African countries have very high birth rates and they do whatever it takes to survive, environment be damned, such as pouring used motor oil on the ground without batting and eye or thinking twice about the effects to their own health. Don't even get me started about the mining and deforestation.

[aortega]

Every american consume about 1000x the resources of every African. It's incredible how the media brainwash you into believe you are actually taking care of the environment when 90% of the CO2 emissions comes from America (and China joined them but just in the latest 5 or 10 years)

[delfaras]

Saints, for real ? The rate of consumption of Americans would require more than 5 planets to be sufficient,

Most African countries need less than one

You mention mining and deforestation but where do you think the material extracted are going ?

[proc0]

I often see this problem of comparing America to one country. We have 350 million people spread out in an area larger than EU. It's really one state is equivalent to one country in EU or Africa.

I would think it's still more energy consumption but not as huge of a gap, depending on the state.

[orangepurple]

China then to the rest of the world in the form of manufactured goods. America isn't the only major consumer of finished goods.

[Ma8ee]

You don’t have to go back many decades to where pouring used motor oil on the ground was the common practice in the US.

[xnx]

The US outsources a lot of its polution.

[doggwalker]

770 million Africans don't even have access to electricity.

Telling Africans they need to stay poor and stop having children is a pretty standard Western stuff.

[nivenkos]

Yeah, I agree, that's why we need population control everywhere.

The US is at a huge scale though, and that mining is probably going towards building American SUVs, military equipment, etc.