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		bialpio 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. Emissions Rise 4.2%, China's Fall 2.7% Per capita is a better metric but it's worth noting that China is world's factory - it's easy to reduce emissions if you offshore a lot of your production elsewhere...

beej71 3 months ago [–]

And China has the US beat per capita in emissions.

card_zero 3 months ago | [–]

Those people aren't making decisions. Measure emissions per government. They have one government.

The factories are responsible for the pollution from goods, and the state is responsible for the factories it controls.

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