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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have lived in several countries on various continents and my parents come from two vastly different countries. When they met, they had no common language, religion or culture.

So please believe me when I say that there is no "best" country.

Each country is good at something. Right now I live in the US on a visa. It's great for healthy young people who want professional opportunities. Not so great if you're poor and have to live in violent, gun-filled neighborhoods, with exorbitant medical care and intermittent access to clean water or internet. Other countries all have their advantages and disadvantages.

But if you're talking about what matters to global stability today, then I can think of two concepts:

1. Climate change - the USA is one of the worst offenders. This needs to change. Poor countries are dying now because of climate events, heat waves, drought and rising seas.

2. Democracy and spreading it around the world. Interestingly, even as democratic institutions are threatened domestically, the USA is still the defender of democracy abroad, confronting China and Russia, among others. That is something we need to sustain, with the help of our allies.[/quote]

China is by far and away the worst emitter in the world. Emissions from the US have been declining for years in terms of both total and per capita. [/quote]

Because it manufactures the world's goods and exports them. 
The USA is one of the major consumers of Chinese-made goods.

Please understand that Americans consume and waste so much compared to other people in the world. China, with its eye towards economic development over climate sustainability, has been happy to pollute in order to sell you products.

This is slowly changing because there have been climate-linked weather events in China, but sadly not fast enough.

OUR attitudes need to change. For example, Halloween. Are you going to buy all that plastic crap that's made in China, and then point fingers at them and say it's their fault?

I'm all for criticizing autocracies and defending Uyghurs, but people need to understand their role in carbon emissions here.

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Give me a break. Liberals touted globalization in the first place. China is by far and away the biggest emitter because they rely heavily on coal for electricity and keep building new coal plants. They also pumped their entire economy with massive stimulus to overstimulate their real estate markets and infrastructure building. All of that concrete, steel, etc. that they used to build those projects had to be made with intense energy input.

Lol, but of course the US is to blame because of Halloween decorations.

Buzz off.[/quote]

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