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in your considered opinion..

I provided both

what really matters is not per capita

what really matters is quantity as a whole by country

What really matters is quantity. In the end, it doesn't matter what land mass surrounded by what border emissions came from.

Dealing with national governments may be a way to coordinate efforts, but in the end a CO2 molecule doesn't carry a passport.

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I think we can make some prudent steps, but we won't, we'll throw money at it and then wonder why it didn't help.

"We" have chosen sides, either it's THE crucial emergency issue facing us OR it's a made up nothing.  

big difference between cleaning up environmental problems in major cities and having a blanket carbon emissions reduction program

Im as much for clean air and water as the next guy what Im not for is destroying our current energy industries 

China is just sitting back and laughing at us and the direction our current leaders are trying to take us

I never mentioned a blanket carbon emissions program.  That bit is all you.

I'm saying that looking at the per capita emissions is demonstrative, in showing that we are one of the countries causing the most damage to our own environment and our own people.  We need to be looking at that, and not just the total numbers, which as you point out we can't do anything about.

carbon emissions and environmental pollution are not necessarily the same or to say it another way while carbon emissions are included in smog it has little to do with many other types of pollution

carbon emissions can be measured on its own and to say we have a more serious problem then China due to our population size is just unrealistic

I never said we cant do anything about carbon emissions but if the US did what it would take to reduce carbon emissions to a meaningful lever with no support from China India and others it would be a waste of effort and would just reduce our standard of living with no reward

in the meantime yes we should strive to target existing pollution and clean it up

Shut coal plants with a solid plan to replace that power.  Biggest bang for the buck across the board.

if we do that we should do it to reduce pollution not to fight global warming