That's per-capita. China is by far the biggest polluter overall, and it is still increasing.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?country=CHN~USA~IND...

Wouldn't you expect the country with the most manufacturing and one of the biggest population to also have the biggest pollution?

I feel you'd need to adjust the sum total by something, capita, or square footage or be more specific like does a manufacturing X in China pollute more than an equivalent one in the US, etc.

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briHass 5 days ago | parent [-]

How about adjusted for GDP, which would measure efficiency of carbon use in output: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_in...

China is still about double the US, and the US is lower than Canada.

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didibus 5 days ago | parent [-]

Hum... GDP doesn't seem right to me.

Not all goods and services involve the same process, some come with more pollution.

For example, Nvidia will contribute to a big chunk of US GDP, but it only designs the chips, which won't have the same pollution impact as the country in which they'll have it manufactured.

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drstewart 5 days ago | parent [-]

Hum... I bet anything that criticizes China over the US won't seem right to you

	▲	didibus 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not at all, but it just feels like the emperor's new clothes if we just pretend we're doing better and aren't objective.

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argsnd 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn't really make sense in my opinion. Why boycott a specific group of people for their collective emissions when their individual emissions are lower than many others? The latter is the important metric, else you're simply punishing them for having a large population.