> I would say the the US is one of the largest polluters on the planet and leadership in the US would change world wide pollution levels You might be surprised

> I would say the the US is one of the largest polluters on the planet and leadership in the US would change world wide pollution levels You might be surprised if you look into this a bit. On a Per Capita basis, the US is barely in the top 10. Regardless, developing nations are not burning coal and petroleum because they hate the environment... they need cheap energy production - which is currently a failure of the green energy movement (ie. there is nothing cheap about it, it's a luxury at the moment).