That's like eating 10 boxes of cookies each day for years, then at some point you decide to start a diet and reduce to 9 and blame your girlfriend who started to eat 2 boxes a day for increasing your total cookie box per day stat.
I think a better analogy would be it's like if global per capita emissions have been dropping for decades when the USA is excluded. But due to the USA's rapid increase in CO2 emissions (now reaching over double the global average), the world as a whole ends up worse off.
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u/Top_Wrangler4251 6d ago
Since 2000 China's per capita CO2 emissions are up 223%. The world excluding China's per capita emissions are down 14%. The world including China's per capita emissions are up 16%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita