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by ClumsyPilot 583 days ago
An average American produces 14 tons of CO2 and an average Chinese person produces 9. Of those 9, he produces 3 at work, building TVs that are then bought by US consumers.

US/Canada/Australia have the worlds highest emissions per capita, except oil states like Kuwait. They have no moral high ground to lecture anyone about climate change.

If you disagree that we should consider population size when we compare emissions, I am open to that idea.

In that case we can make similarly absurd comparisons, between USA and Slovakia.

It is only thanks to China that we have affordable batteries and solar panels at all. And without China there would be no hope of green energy transition whatsoever