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Both are big polluters, both are real problems.

Emissions per capita are low because a lot of the population lives in poverty outside the city or in the city on the margins. It is not an eco-utopia.

The US is free to plunge millions of its own citizens into poverty to take advantage of this "loophole" if it wishes.

Even the rich lifestyles are greener than in America

Manufacturing is dirty but then the whole world consumes these goods so that's not only a China problem

> Their emissions per capital are low

Well I do see far more electric vehicles in Beijing and in Washington DC if that's what you mean