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I intended the 'we' to mean mankind, the species. While it's useful to know which nations are the worst offenders so attempts can be made to mitigate it (somehow...), picking out the responsibility is another matter. If the west hadn't turned to China to make everything, then perhaps they wouldn't have gone the way they have - who can say, but the emissions would just be coming from somewhere else, chances are.Best to be accurate in apportioning 'climate change' blame and substitute 'we' for China, the worlds largest emitter of anthropogenic greenhouse gases by some margin.
Perversely China is also the worlds largest investor in renewables. Making a buck at both ends to the detriment of everyone else.
The league table in 2018 was China (21%), US(15%), India(7%), Russia(5%)
It gets more complicated when you look at the per-capita numbers, but by that metric, Qatar are the 'winners' by a huge margin, producing about 6x what China do. China are pretty good per-capita, there are just a lot of folk there.
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