Comment on Prediction vs Reality
GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 12 hours agoSource? 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
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.
There are probably still plenty of people knocking about that will tell you “China is building a coal fired power plant per week”.
ladicius@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
China is polluting because they produce the European and American stuff over there. On their own they’d still pollute but much less.