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Infographic: Forget China, Who Are Really the World's Worst
Carbon Polluters?  Probably the most common refrain you here
from anyone arguing against the United States agreeing to
significant emissions reductions is, "what about China and
India?" China is, after all, now the world's largest total
emitter of carbon dioxide emissions.  But that's not the most
important emissions metric we should be focusing on. Per capita
carbon emissions is a much more telling statistic. Sure, China
emits the most total tons of carbon dioxide, because it also has
the largest population. On a per capita basis, even rapidly
developing nations like China and India have a long way to go to
catch up with long industrialized nations like the United States
and those in Western Europe.  Designer Stanford Kay laid the two
metrics side by side in a great and revealing infographic on
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