The US is a net importer of CO2 emissions if you account for trade. Goods that cause CO2 emissions in China and Europe are imported, amounting to about 7% of th

The US is a net importer of CO2 emissions if you account for trade. Goods that cause CO2 emissions in China and Europe are imported, amounting to about 7% of the US domestic total emissions in 2017 (edit: while China is a net exporter, about 14% of its emissions are for goods that leave the country). So reducing emissions only matters if they're not moved to somewhere else. [0] Also, China emitted about half as much CO2 per capita as the US in 2018, still ofc more in total, with about 4 times as large a population than the US.[1] Edit 2: If you calculate in the trade, the US ends up with almost 3 times the emissions per capita of China. [0] https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-largest-co2-importers-exporters https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-largest-co2-import... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita#/media/File%3A2018_Worldwide_CO2_Emissions_(by_region%2C_per_capita)%2C_variwide_chart.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...