Corruption is rampant there among local politicians, leading to lots of illegal pollution by factories. Some parts of rural China are so polluted, the ground there is no longer safe for growing food. Chinese rice-farmers prefer to eat rice imported from Japan.

The per capita emissions level of the USA. So basically Chinese people should not have cars, air conditioners, refrigerators etc. because there are just too many of them to allow them to have the same lifestyle we enjoy?

Somehow these graphs don't convince me that China has an emissions problem.

…to resemble Americans, that their per capital carbon emissions will not.

Never-the-less, at a time when we need to be cutting emissions globally, the Chinese are dramatically increasing their emissions.

http://time.com/3918728/china-green-coal-carbon-emissions-pollution/

Only absolute emission quantities count. How many people it takes to produce them is irrelevant.

Per capita emissions only count when energy consumption is being used as a proxy for human wealth. Mother Nature doesn't give a flying fuck about economics.

while we are doing basically fuck all about climate change?

And I notice the drop roughly corresponds to the increase in the price of Gasoline from 2001 onward. This again shows that to reduce Carbon we have to increase the price of energy preferably by taxes, but other causes would work as well.

Which sounds about right, Coal and Natural Gas increased since 2000 and those more then compensated for the drop in oil usage till about 2007.

Coal Consumption INCREASED till 2007, then it started to decline:



http://www.eia.gov/coal/review/html/fig4.cfm

Natural Gas Consumption has increased since 1985 and is STILL INCREASING.

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9140us2a.htm

Thus your chart, which includes NOT only Oil but Coal, wood and Natural Gas, shows a drop since 2007 driven by the drop in the use of oil since 2000 AND the drop in coal starting in 2007. Both of those drops were offset by the increase in the use of Natural Gas.

I know some is… but is it a significant amount?

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/sources/transportation.html

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[font size=4]Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation[/font]

[font size=1]Note: Emissions involved in the consumption of electricity for transportation activities are included above, but not shown separately (as was done for other sectors). These indirect emissions are negligible, accounting for less than 1% of the total emissions shown in the graph.
Note: All emission estimates from the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2013.[/font]

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