It’s not always up to us, but also countries like China that open a new coal plant every week.
Per capita energy use in China is under the threshold for sustainable usage, and they’re hitting their climate goals a decade early.
Meanwhile, Europe remains a dumpster fire of emissions, while heavily consuming from China’s surplus manufacturing.
Pointing to the other side of the ocean and saying “You guys need to fix it” has been an American remedy for too long. Now we’re eating hurricane after hurricane as recompense.
i don’t think china is the example you want to point to on that…
Ah yes I also forgot India.
But yes, China:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants/
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/27/energy/china-new-coal-plants-climate-report-intl-hnk/index.html/
https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-responsible-for-95-of-new-coal-power-construction-in-2023-report-says/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/climate/coal-plants-china.html
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-six-times-more-new-coal-plants-than-other-countries-report-fin
Renewable energy means nothing if you’re also poisoning the planet now does it?
https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/
The Eastern Block states simply aren’t to blame here. They have low per capita emissions and large populations.
China, in particular, is right on target thanks to its all-options energy growth strategy.
China is one of the world’s largest producers of nuclear power. The country ranks third in the world both in total nuclear power capacity installed and electricity generated, accounting for around one tenth of global nuclear power generated.
