This is a snapshot of a handy little web app on British Gas’s website that shows every country’s carbon footprint from the year 1992 up to the year 2014. Take a look and see what you think.

Here are my own takeaways from this data:

If you live in America, you are not an environmentalist. (I consider these terms to be mutually exclusive.) Anyone who has ever read anything about Americans’ lifestyle habits will already know how badly we over-consume compared to people of other countries.

If you live in China, you may or may not be an environmentalist. This is because there are still plenty of rural, nonindustrialized societies—at least for the time being—but holy shit… the industrialized societies are doing a tremendous amount of extra damage.

If you live in Ethiopia, you are likely an environmentalist, but you are so hungry you don’t even know, or care.

Right now, there are 7.45 billion people in the world and all of them want to consume like Americans do. There is no way this is possible, and it makes me wonder if World War III will be started over something ridiculous, like a coconut oil dispute.

I now feel obligated to point out that if you drive a Toyota Prius, wear Birkenstocks and think you are doing your part to save the planet, you are a serious asshole.