Source? Not to say they aren’t putting in a ton of effort and making great progress. It’s just hard for me to see them as the biggest force in stopping global warming when China built an entire Germany of electrical capacity last year and almost all of it was renewables
Their manufacturing leadership has brought solar and wind down so cheap that it’s no longer economical to use create non-renewable generators in most cases. They’re also doing a fantastic job producing new electric cars and industrial scale batteries
China is still massively polluting but they’re showing a kind of leadership on climate change that I wish I saw in America
I’m curious to hear your take on why Europe is doing the most on climate change
America could have had pioneer advantage but they fucked it because the political system there has been corrupted by money.
For example Israel bans private funding to politicians and political parties, it’s a criminal offence, funding is organised nationally from public funds, if US politicians didn’t whore themselves out to special interests it might actually start being able to represent the electorate
But since both parties have their snouts in the trough the country will continue to represent those that pay the most money first and foremost
It’s documented in every COP report. Our electricity is mostly carbon-free thanks to renewable and nuclear. Our industry is gone to China. Heating with fossil fuel is being replaced with electric installation and heat pumps…
China was polluting a lot more, that’s where a lot of room for improvement existed.
I remember I saw a statistics that China is producing twice more emmisions per person and USA four times more.
And I found this is pretty website with a lot of comparison Our World in Data - CO2 Emissions. Europe was producing almost exclusively til 1900 but since then USA dominated until China took over in 2000. According to the page, EU was responsible for 6.3% of all emissions in 2024, and Europe in total for 12.7%. Pretty much equal to USA emmisions. And while it is much more then South America, Africa and Oceania, it is still a fraction of Asia emmisions.
Source? Not to say they aren’t putting in a ton of effort and making great progress. It’s just hard for me to see them as the biggest force in stopping global warming when China built an entire Germany of electrical capacity last year and almost all of it was renewables
Their manufacturing leadership has brought solar and wind down so cheap that it’s no longer economical to use create non-renewable generators in most cases. They’re also doing a fantastic job producing new electric cars and industrial scale batteries
China is still massively polluting but they’re showing a kind of leadership on climate change that I wish I saw in America
I’m curious to hear your take on why Europe is doing the most on climate change
China is polluting because they produce the European and American stuff over there. On their own they’d still pollute but much less.
America could have had pioneer advantage but they fucked it because the political system there has been corrupted by money.
For example Israel bans private funding to politicians and political parties, it’s a criminal offence, funding is organised nationally from public funds, if US politicians didn’t whore themselves out to special interests it might actually start being able to represent the electorate
But since both parties have their snouts in the trough the country will continue to represent those that pay the most money first and foremost
There are probably still plenty of people knocking about that will tell you “China is building a coal fired power plant per week”.
It’s documented in every COP report. Our electricity is mostly carbon-free thanks to renewable and nuclear. Our industry is gone to China. Heating with fossil fuel is being replaced with electric installation and heat pumps…
China was polluting a lot more, that’s where a lot of room for improvement existed.
I remember I saw a statistics that China is producing twice more emmisions per person and USA four times more.
And I found this is pretty website with a lot of comparison Our World in Data - CO2 Emissions. Europe was producing almost exclusively til 1900 but since then USA dominated until China took over in 2000. According to the page, EU was responsible for 6.3% of all emissions in 2024, and Europe in total for 12.7%. Pretty much equal to USA emmisions. And while it is much more then South America, Africa and Oceania, it is still a fraction of Asia emmisions.