GreenIt! Footnote:

This is a very interesting infographic by Allison Lee ... superbly presented.

What is remarkable however is that in a 2009 'per capita carbon footprint' analysis the USA is only 12th in the world!

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/top2009.cap

The worst offender by far (almost three times the USA) is ... Qatar!?

The only country geographically within the Euro Zone in the Top 10 is Luxembourg at No 9.

The Chinese, often maligned, are a mere 69th, India 135th!

Brazil is 128th.

The Russian Federation is 24th and South Africa is 31st, making these two countries the worst of the BRICS.

The overall BRICS per capita figure will be low given the massive populations of China and India - so BRICS as a whole can be seen as a moderate to low contributor only despite its growth.

The real story is that the CO2 villains are not quite the ones that we would have expected according to the mainstream media ... who would have thought that Qatar, the home base of Al Jazeera which has recently purchased Al Gore's Current TV is the worst!?

Sadly,  the irony of that suggests we need to be careful how we choose both our villains and our heroes ... we need to think for ourselves, and not merely follow what is fashionable to vilify or honour!