>>4223353China still puts out more carbon pollution than the US does by a large margin. While on the topic about if anime has hurt the US, yes, but not as bad as it has Japan, their birth rate is plummeting and they are losing more people every year than gaining. While the US still has a healthy birth rate and population expansion rate. Additionally, back in WW2, the US and allies killed roughly 1 million Japanese men (including 140,000 from 2 nuclear weapons dropped on Japanese cities), by comparison the US lost roughly 250,000 men in the Pacific war, a 4 to 1 ratio of killing.