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Right. So what was your point when you replied to a commenter saying the US and China are equally bad, pollution wise, with

> No the chinese people, most of whom do not have a ICE car, do not produce those carbon numbers

That sounds to me like you're saying that China is not as bad as the US, because the pollution in China comes in some part from laundered pollution from the US. If that's not the case, could you explain what you meant?

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You can’t do carbon production attribution the same between a consumption and a production nation at the per capita level

Someone paying to fly a private jet and a slave putting coal into a furnace aren’t the same

I really don't see that as a fair comparison. OP wasn't equating individual citizens, they were equating the nations as a whole. And China, as a state, definitely isn't akin to a slave being forced to do this dirty work.

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