Greenhouse gases reach a new record as nations fall behind on climate pledges

[NNadir]

19. I don't "guess." If the Chinese lived the way Americans do, the atmosphere would...

...complete its collapse much faster than it is right now, and the collapse is accelerating, not decelerating.

"Per capita" is not adjusted to include only the poor or only the rich. It's an average, based on the entire population.

I read all the whining by Americans in their consumer society about Indian and Chinese emissions as completely oblivious and contemptuous.

An American living like the average Indian would consider himself, herself or themselves impoverished.

I have been to India and what I saw is out of the purview of smug Americans who think they're going to save the world by staring at pictures of wind turbines, solar cells and electric cars, while the amount of coal and gas Americans burn, dumping the waste into the planetary atmosphere, on average, per person, disgusts the rest of the world, and with good reason.

Chinese and Indians may not agree that they should live in dire poverty, overall, so oblivious Americans can declare themselves "green."