It seems like we just externalized our emissions though. The U.S's production-based emissions starts dropping at the start of the millennium, and China's start

It seems like we just externalized our emissions though. The U.S's production-based emissions starts dropping at the start of the millennium, and China's starts increasing at the inverse rate. And this is the same time that China is entering the global market and their trade with us starts increasing. It seems like our appetite for "more" and "new" does not cease. Any efficiency gains we make, and technological advances we discover increases the space in our belly - but we are still hungry, and that void is filled soon enough. Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 continue to rise. And it has been doing so for the past few centuries.