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		nicoburns on Jan 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 only 15%? Given that you have less than 5% if the worlds population, you might want to rethink that being a small number.

eerrt on Jan 8, 2020 [–]

The best comparison here would be CO2 per capita vs GDP per capita: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita-v...

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