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And what are the environmental costs of this trend?





The USA is the biggest greenhouse gas emitter per capita on earth.

According to Wikipedia, USA is in 16th place, behind a bunch of small countries, and Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia and Russia.

Small countries are ignored on most metrics because they heavily skew to extremes, so aren’t useful.

I saw Russia being slightly higher but figured it was marginal and “we emit slightly less than a petrostate in the middle of bombing the fuck out of their neighbour” was hardly a “win” for the USA…




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