Odd statement from new Indian environment minister: World's third-largest CO2 emitter "not even a blip on the radar of carbon emission"

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[Jayanthi Natarajan] “There is something fundamentally unfair about countries that have used up all the natural resources and reserves on our planet, turning around and preaching to us about reducing our carbon footprint when with our billion-plus population, we are not even a blip on the radar of carbon emission. Western countries who preach the most have absolutely no intention of cutting their own carbon emission or to rethink about their wasteful economies…”

List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of countries by 2008 emissions
Rank↓ Country↓ Annual CO2 emissions[10][11]
(in thousands of metric tonnes)↓ Percentage of global total↓
1 China[12] 7,031,916 23.33%
2 United States 5,461,014 18.11%
3 India 1,742,698 5.78%
...
16 Australia 399,219 1.32%