I didn't take the final step to ask why their pollution would be so much less than ours. I'm glad you did though, and now I know something new! So thanks!
It's really true that explaining this to reddit is useless. I don't know for sure, maybe I planted a seed in that guy's mind that day, but his replies definitely made it seem like he was unwilling to even consider that he might be wrong.
I'm sure it's got a lot more to do with how much resources americans (and by that I mean the top 10% of the people in the US) frivoluosly waste; but 40% is still a significant chunk of a country's energy economy.
I didn't take the final step to ask why their pollution would be so much less than ours. I'm glad you did though, and now I know something new! So thanks!
It's really true that explaining this to reddit is useless. I don't know for sure, maybe I planted a seed in that guy's mind that day, but his replies definitely made it seem like he was unwilling to even consider that he might be wrong.
I'm sure it's got a lot more to do with how much resources americans (and by that I mean the top 10% of the people in the US) frivoluosly waste; but 40% is still a significant chunk of a country's energy economy.