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The US has been trending down per capita for the last 50 years...but the problem is we have more people so the total output is higher. China's trend, as anothe
by j_walter 5y ago
The US has been trending down per capita for the last 50 years...but the problem is we have more people so the total output is higher. China's trend, as another poster said, is always going higher.
https://datacommons.org/place/country/USA?topic=Environment https://datacommons.org/place/country/USA?topic=Environment
https://datacommons.org/place/country/CHN?topic=Environment https://datacommons.org/place/country/CHN?topic=Environment
- drdeca 5y agoBy “we” do you mean the US? Because the population of China is over 1 Billion, while the US population (as of 2019) is only 328 million. Or do you mean “China” by “we”? Because in that case yes, the total emissions in China are greater than in the US, corresponding to their larger population (despite their per capita emissions being like half those of the US)