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The government would only publicize the emissions that benefit us politically, which are likely the primary polluters we already know about (China, India, etc).


The Primary polluters are still China and USA. India is a far 3rd and emits 50% less CO2 than the USA. https://www.statista.com/statistics/271748/the-largest-emitt...


https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/06/22/ranked-the-top-10-...

India can be #1 in most plastic dumped into the oceans. We're all #1 in our own special ways :p


I’m not sure what those figures are for. They list India with 126.5 million kg of plastic “dumped”, yet the Phillipines is #1 with nearly 3x that amount of plastic waste going down its rivers into to oceans: 360 million kg (3.6 × 10^5 Metric tonnes) of plastic waste according to https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz5803


In other news, its obvious which region has trash problems


Corporations are multinational. The atmosphere doesn't care if that methane plume came from a plant in the US or a US-owned plant in Nigeria. Or on an rig in the North Sea.


Corporations are multinational, but politics still plays favorites.




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