Comment by swiftcoder

> India and China burn orders of magnitude more

The US accounts for significantly higher emissions than India[1], despite having only a quarter the population.

> and they aren't going to slow down

There's a pretty good case to be made that China is slowing down[2], albeit not as fast as any of us need to be.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

[2]: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-ha...