&gt; Is this really true?<p>Well without going into the specifics of which industry outputs the most CO2, I think it&#x27;s a fairly uncontroversial statement to make that (particularly on a per capita basis), the poorest people on the planet output the least CO2. Whereas we, the richest, output the most CO2, but will not be hit as hard (at least in the short-medium term) by climate change.<p>I think that&#x27;s the gist of his statement.<p>In places like Mali or Malawi, the CO2 emissions are roughly 2 orders of magnitude lower than some of the highest places like Qatar or the US, in China it&#x27;s roughly one order of magnitude. And that doesn&#x27;t even factor in that China doesn&#x27;t &#x27;consume&#x27; a significant portion of the end products that generate the emissions. i.e. it emits a lot, in part, because it produces for consumers in the west, meaning they&#x27;re really our offshored&#x2F;outsourced emissions.