It's easy to criticize China until you realize a lot of the stuff that is consumed by the Western world are dumped back into China. All those outdated cell phones, computers, and other electronics gets dumped somewhere. But as long is it's halfway across the world and not in our backyard, we turn a blind eye to it. And that's the sad reality of it. So who are the real polluters here? Looking at that CO2 emissons per capita chart, China's all the way down in #80 compared to Canada at #10. Just think how polluted Canada would be if we even had a 3rd of China's population.
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