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The US emit more than double per capita.



USA's emissions/gdp are close to the world's average, and have been improving at the same rate as other nations. It is not doing a bad job at environment and there isn't a valid reason to single it out [1]

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...


So you're saying you want to emulate countries that have much denser populations, countries who are so poor that they can't afford much carbon-producing industry, yet who continue to have unsustainable birthrates? I'm pretty sure the US sets a better example on that front.

Carbon per capita aside, do you realize how much pollution China and India produce? Do you realize what the rivers and lakes are like in those countries?

Yet you want to pay them Billions of dollars from US taxpayers to enable them to do even more of the same? How does that make sense?




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