<div>"China pollutes the world more than the US not because of its proportion of carbon emissions per person, but because it has made the unwise decision of having a population of 1.4 billion people."</div>
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<div>You do not have your facts correct, at least on the issue of CO2 pollution. The US has polluted the atmosphere with far more CO2 in absolute amount than China (close to 2.5 times as much from 1960-2005), despite China's huge population, from 1960-2005 (or considering this issue from the beginning of the industrial revolution). China is increasing its CO2 emissions, and now annually in absolute amount (not per capita) is close to or perhaps emitting somewhat more than the US annual total. But it could be many decades before China exceeds the US in absolute amounts of CO2 emissions over time, assuming China increases its emissions dramatically and the US does not. But if global progress is made to reduce CO2 emissions, we can hope that <strong><em>China</em></strong> <strong><em>never achieves the irresponsible position of historically emitting more CO2 into the atmosphere than the US.</em></strong></div>
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<div>Consider the data offered at the <a href="http://climateprogress.org">climateprogress.org</a> website, which is common knowledge, accepted by anyone doing the most cursory research into this issue, that up to this point in history, the United States' CO2 total emissions are both the most in absolute amounts of any nation by a wide margin, and considered per capita, are even more skewed towards US citizens each being more responsible for CO2 induced climate change, than the citizens of any major industrial nation on Earth:</div>
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<div><a href="http://climateprogress.org/2009/06/01/us-responsible-for-29-of-carbon-dioxide-emissions-over-past-150-years-triple-chinas-share/">http://climateprogress.org/2009/06/01/us-responsible-for-29-of-carbon-dioxide-emissions-over-past-150-years-triple-chinas-share/</a></div>
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<p>Here are some more quotable factoids from their report:</p>
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<li>Historically, no nation has emitted more global warming pollution than the United States. From 1960-2005, the U.S. emitted 213,608 MtCO2, 26% of total global emissions. The next biggest polluter, China, emitted 88,643 MtCO2 over the same time frame, 10.7% of global emissions.</li>
<li><strong>The U.S. also exceeded almost every other nation in per capita emissions</strong>. Per capita, the U.S. emitted 720 tons of CO2 per person per year from 1960-2005. This is <strong>more than ten times China’s per capita emissions</strong> (68 tons of CO2) during the same period, and ninety times the per capita emissions of Kenya (7.7 tCO2).</li>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Donovan Arnold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<div>This is all political Hogwash. </div>
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<div>China pollutes the world more than the US not because of its proportion of carbon emissions per person, but because it has made the unwise decision of having a population of 1.4 billion people. Having that many people will pollute the world and deplete it of its resources much more quickly than 300 million polluters in the US. </div>
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<div>What would the Earth rather have, a 100 people throw 10 lbs of trash into the ocean, or 700 people 5 lbs of trash. Per person doesn't matter, it matters how much trash because the Earth is a finite resource. It doesn't get bigger per person. </div>
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<div>Further, China produces about half the trash we throw out over here anyway. :P</div>
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<div>Donovan Arnold <br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 11/20/09, Ted Moffett <i><<a href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com" target="_blank">starbliss@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
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Subject: [Vision2020] Institute for Public Accuracy: China, U.S. and Global Warming<br>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br>Date: Friday, November 20, 2009, 5:20 PM
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___________________________________________________<br><br>Wednesday, November 18, 2009<br><br>China, U.S. and Global Warming<br> <br><a href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=simone.lovera@globalforestcoalition.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#527194">SIMONE LOVERA</font></strong></a><br>
Based in Paraguay, Lovera is co-founder of the <a href="http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#527194">Global Forest Coalition</font></strong></a>. She said today: "The U.S. per capita carbon dioxide emissions are so much higher than China's emissions. In 2005, the U.S. was nearly 23.5 while China is 5.5 [tons of CO2 per person per year]. It's inappropriate for the U.S. to be demanding that China reduce emissions unless you somehow argue that the U.S. has a right to pollute the rest of the planet and China doesn't. China actually showed real leadership in the voluntary commitments it made at the UN General Assembly meeting in September. I understand Obama has to deal with the U.S. Senate, but U.S. officials are actually obstructing progress at the international climate negotiations. The Europeans have agreed to a 20 percent reduction -- the Scottish [government] agreed to 40 percent. The U.S. government is stopping these from being binding commitments. Meanwhile, studies are finding that 300,000 people are dying because of climate disruption; countries in the Pacific are on course to be under water."<br>
<br>Lovera will be at the Copenhagen summit on climate change from December 5 to 19. <br><br>See: "<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#527194">Global Warming Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year, Says Kofi Annan think tank: Climate change is greatest humanitarian challenge facing the world as heatwaves, floods and forest fires become more severe</font></strong></a>" <br>
<br>Lovera is also reachable via <b><a href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hallie@globaljusticeecology.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="#527194">Hallie Boas</font></a></b>. <br><br>Boas is coordinator of <a href="http://globaljusticeecology.org/newvoices.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#527194">New Voices on Climate Change for the Global Justice Ecology Project</font></strong></a> and can connect media to individuals and groups working on global warming around the world..<br>
<br><br>For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:<br>Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167<br>------------------------------------------</div>
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