Countries with the Highest Carbon Dioxide Emissions

100% accuracy rate. Yeah that's tough

Yeah, somebody should do a quiz that looks at per capita emissions instead. As it is this is mostly just a list of large countries.

Here you go.

CO2 per capita

easy to make. A little more difficult to take. So I added 30 seconds.

US is still pretty high per capita.

Yes. Gotta look at countries which feature in both lists viz. this one and the per capita one. That's where the corrective action needs to begin.

I don't care how big my or your country is. China and the USA are the ones that are responsible for almost half of all greenhouse gas emission. Kuwait can cut its emissions all it wants, but the world is going to suffer if China doesn't improve its environmental impact.

The US has 10x the carbon emissions of Brazil, so I don't think that Brazil belongs here lol.

China is still by far the biggest user of coal in the world, producing over 40% and importing the greatest amount from others. The US and India, the next largest producers, produce less than 10% each. The US has regulations which makes coal cleaner burning than in China. I know, because I pay for it on my electric bill. After our electric cooperative spent millions to make cleaner-burning coal, then the government came in and said we couldn't burn it anyway and they weren't going to give our co-op time to transition to other alternatives which meant our electric bills would triple from having to purchase energy from other sources. But at the same time they had no problem with allowing coal exports to China where they don't require it to be scrubbed. Things have eased up some for now, but we'll see what happens. I'm all for ending global warming but I think sometimes we strain at a gnat and swallow a camel instead of using common sense to develop real answers to the problem.

After all, it makes up over one quarter the world's manufacturing output and nearly one fifth the world's population. With increasing demands (and population, in the US's case) in the West, it's honestly not that surprising.

Also keep in mind that pollution is more than just carbon dioxide emissions. The US produces over 30% of the world's waste. None of those countries here are exactly calm.

Oh and of course, a lot of wealthy countries with small population pollute a lot per capita. Although, yes, they do have way less people as well as total emission. But, say that these countries spent a good portion of the money they own to reduce pollution rather than wasting it all on empty luxurious buildings nobody lives in (like in Dubai) or other useless luxurious products, it would probably cut down on the pollution significantly.

Noone asked if anyone asked...

BS, the west is actively doing something while there rest is doing nothing. Even with the indirect emissions.