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I think there are two factors to this "fad": one is that USA for being the world superpower and through their media monopoly is always in the spotlight. The s

I think there are two factors to this "fad": one is that USA for being the world superpower and through their media monopoly is always in the spotlight. The second is that USA spend too much time saying how wonderful they are (that if you look to history with a little objectivity is not so wonderful). Reaction to this is almost inevitable. I would like to present a trivial recent example: as you know, USA retired from the climate Paris agreement and, in general, is not doing so much like other nations despite being the worst in per capita terms. Well, it seems that the new president want to go back to the Paris agreements and is framing it like "going back to led the world" in climate change. Going back to led the world? really? I know, I know, this a sentence for internal consumption but still, how do you think it sounds in other countries? I didn't touch the little fact of invasions of third countries and military bases all around the world. So, maybe there is something to this fad? Maybe take it like feedback to correct a few things?

5560675260 6y ago
> in general, is not doing so much like other nations despite being the worst in per capita terms. Do you have sources to back any part of this statement? It would be surprising to see US doing less and being worth that, for example, Germany and its coal or China and its industrial complex. Otherwise it seems to be another example of "blatantly false anti-US comments like this get voted up without any data to back them up".
- RobertoG 6y ago
  Actually I have to correct that because the USA is not the worst per capita (my apologies), but it's up there with the top worst (Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia and a bunch of smaller countries) and, of course, more important because of the size of its population (1). It seems that what it's in dispute is the "not doing so much like other nations". I would say there are two ways to look at it: pledges and historical data. I don't think is necessary to demonstrate that the USA current pledges are below the Paris agreement countries. For historical I just will take 2019 that was a specially good year for USA CO2 reductions. from https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-leads-world-reducing-co2/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-leads-world-reducing-co... >>"It’s true that, according to the IEA’s February 2020 report, the U.S. achieved a greater absolute reduction in CO2 emissions than any other country, in 2019. However, claims that the U.S. therefore “led the entire world” or was a “global leader” in CO2 emissions were belied by the fact that other countries (including Germany, Japan, and likely others) achieved a superior rate of reduction in CO2 emissions. Although not a country, the European Union achieved both a larger absolute reduction and a greater rate of reduction in CO2 emissions than the US did. " (1) - https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/ https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by...

5560675260 6y ago

> in general, is not doing so much like other nations despite being the worst in per capita terms. Do you have sources to back any part of this statement? It would be surprising to see US doing less and being worth that, for example, Germany and its coal or China and its industrial complex. Otherwise it seems to be another example of "blatantly false anti-US comments like this get voted up without any data to back them up".

RobertoG 6y ago
Actually I have to correct that because the USA is not the worst per capita (my apologies), but it's up there with the top worst (Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia and a bunch of smaller countries) and, of course, more important because of the size of its population (1). It seems that what it's in dispute is the "not doing so much like other nations". I would say there are two ways to look at it: pledges and historical data. I don't think is necessary to demonstrate that the USA current pledges are below the Paris agreement countries. For historical I just will take 2019 that was a specially good year for USA CO2 reductions. from https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-leads-world-reducing-co2/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-leads-world-reducing-co... >>"It’s true that, according to the IEA’s February 2020 report, the U.S. achieved a greater absolute reduction in CO2 emissions than any other country, in 2019. However, claims that the U.S. therefore “led the entire world” or was a “global leader” in CO2 emissions were belied by the fact that other countries (including Germany, Japan, and likely others) achieved a superior rate of reduction in CO2 emissions. Although not a country, the European Union achieved both a larger absolute reduction and a greater rate of reduction in CO2 emissions than the US did. " (1) - https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/ https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by...