If US and China both produce 1000 tons of CO2 per capita per year, then China is twice as bad as the US, not twice as good. The measure you're looking for is c

If US and China both produce 1000 tons of CO2 per capita per year, then China is twice as bad as the US, not twice as good. The measure you're looking for is carbon intensity of economy. How many tons of CO2 are produced per, say $1000 of economic output. > But if you break out population statistics and 500 million of them live in mud huts and produce almost no CO2, then the other half that have moved to US like living conditions produce US like carbon. That's not really indicative of anything other than a wealth disparity, which I'm sure can happen both in high and low per capita polluters.