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A representation of different estimated annual carbon footprints.
      Government services were a major reason for the relatively large U.S. average. spotlight: Americans' Carbon Footprints. An MIT class has estimated the carbon emissions of Americans in a wide variety of lifestyles--from the homeless to multimillionaires--and compared them to those of other nations. The bottom line is that in the United States, even the people with the lowest usage of energy are still producing, on average, more than double the global per-capita average.
 
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