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Yeah let’s not compare per capita or historic responsibility, or their huge investments in renewable energy, I don’t want to lower my first world lifestyle.

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Per capita plastic pollution is highest in a handful of Asian countries, but for CO2 you have a point. Plastic pollution is caused by just a couple of countries.

On a per capita basis China emits more CO2 than Europeans.

The EU-27 and China are currenty ballpark; the EU has made a solid effort to come down overthe decades, China has risen by virtue of being the worlds largest trading source .. the argument can be made that western countries have outsourced the CO2 of much of their production to China.

All that aside, for those that want figures:

EU-27: https://www.statista.com/statistics/986392/co2-emissions-per...

China: https://www.statista.com/statistics/239070/co2-emissions-per...

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