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Re:WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United Stat... by usaar333 on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:46PM (#14466499)
For a developed country, the US has quite low GDP output per emissions. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_...

Only Australia (another country full of climate change denialism) and Israel fare worse. Canada is rather comparable.

On the other hand, some European countries (e.g. France, UK) are nearly double gdp per emissions. Even Germany with its relatively large industrial sector has far better GDP per CO2 ton.

Re:WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United Stat... by refurb on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:09PM (#14466639)
That's looking purely at CO2. Not energy.
Re:WA, NY and CA Governors Announce Formation of United Stat... by usaar333 on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:19PM (#14466700)
Why is that relevant?

Either the US has poor energy efficiency (GDP output per energy input) or the US has energy sources that are highly carbon intensive. Both are bad.