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		squirrelicus on July 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than pre... You're over estimating how much impact the West has on climate change. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis... There's only one solution that is known to be practical and based on non speculative approaches: nuclear fission power. And we have to do it globally. Even if emissions in the West drop to zero yesterday, it won't matter.

abalone on July 26, 2019 [–]

Your own source disagrees with you. It clearly shows the US is the top cumulative CO2 producer and one of the highest annually.

vastoi on July 27, 2019 | [–]

Right? The link also indicates that the US is one of the highest per capita emitters as well.

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