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Pope Francis scolds U.S., ‘irresponsible’ Western lifestyle in climate plea
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2023
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Not per capita. The US, Canada, Australia, and Saudi Arabia are by far much much worse. Pretend each Chinese province is its own country if it makes you feel better. The earth doesn’t care about political boundaries.
Each of those provinces have the same federal Government that makes the rules.
Yes and those rules produce fewer emissions per capita than places like the US. Do you not understand what “per capita” means?
I understand that Saudi Arabia has higher per capita emissions than the US according to the Wikipedia article I linked to. But for some reason the pope is fixated on the west and the US.
For some reason you're fixated on pretending it's not the west and US's problem too. Whataboutism is the refuge of the sycophant.