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They also lead the world in emissions and what the US does / doesn’t do won’t be a major driver. Our carbon peaked in 2007

It’s more an issue of US ability to compete in an emerging market IMO.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183943/us-carbon-dioxide...

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If we exported even more manufacturing abroad we can keep dropping CO2. We could stop smelting steel, making fertilizer, and making cement in the US to drop us 15% to 20% lower. Though we’ll still lead the world in CO2 per capita though of major countries.

The US is today the biggest exporter of refined petrol products. It also consumes products manufactured elsewhere, including China.

China is in some ways the world's factory.

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