They’ve outpaced the entire world combined for the last two years in renewable deployment.
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 21 hours agoWhat you can see of them through the smog yeah.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
True, I think what they have deployed the last 2 years could power the whole of Europe.
Still a brutal dictatorship though.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
And have the smog levels outpaced the rest of the world? Have you been recently man? Making great progress yes, but they are starting from way behind.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Its been significantly improved vs where it was 10 and 20 years ago.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Agreed. But 80% better than awful is still pretty bad.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
But unlike the US, its air quality is trending positive, not negative.
matlag@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
The trend is what matters. China: electrification is going so fast it’s hard to follow. Pollution is going down very fast. The USA: cancel all plan to promote EVs and weaken regulation on gas cars: pollution is to go up. And that’s not including public transportation offset on the cars density, where China is basically 40 years ahead…
The cross-point on air quality might be much closer than you think.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Is it though? Have you been there or lived in a place with high smog and low air quality? Do you or your child have asthma? I made the comment simply as a note of the current condition - you sometimes literally can have a hard time seeing the city skyline in Beijing and I’ve never been to places like Hotan and other more industrial areas where it is worse.
Living or even visiting a place and saying it’s the trend that matters sounds like politician speak. Tell that to your lungs and brain while you sit in the pollution.