> If you switch all the wood burning in third world countries, and all the coal fired stations to natural gas, you reduce emissions considerably. Bottom line:

> If you switch all the wood burning in third world countries, and all the coal fired stations to natural gas, you reduce emissions considerably. Bottom line: the amount of CO₂ emitted by "third world" countries is miniscule and it is only a distraction to point to it. In 2020 the US alone emitted about as much CO₂ as all of Africa, India, and South America together: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-region https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co-emissions-by-re... (India: 2.44 billion tonnes, Africa: 1.33 billion tonnes, South America: 994.16 million tonnes, total: 4.76 billion tonnes; US: 4.71 billion tonnes). That's just the US, not counting the rest of North America, Europe, the rest of Asia and China, some of which may count more as "third world" than others, it's up to debate.