• HowMany@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yay China. Say… isn’t this the same country that turns out 68% of the world’s air pollution?

    What have they done about that?

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      wow lemmy is full of liberals

      Ya think maybe producing most of the world’s shit has anything to do with that pollution, buddy? Like wow the west outsourced most of its manufacturing to China, no fucking shit it’s going to produce more pollution. What’s their per capita #s look like, frienderino?

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        Yes, and still the air in China’s major cities and regions can be cut with a knife on a bad day. And you’re right - the U.S.'s ‘green’ push came to a screeching halt most places when oil and gas and coal said “fuck this shit - y’all can’t have that green stuff” … and here we are; some states even penalizing criminally being “off the grid”.

        Those fuckers are not going to go quietly. Don’t blame the common people of the country because of corporations running governments passing laws for corporations.

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      In 2021, China, the United States, the EU27, India, Russia and Japan remained the world’s largest CO2 emitters. Together they account for 49.2% of global population, 62.4% of global Gross Domestic Product, 66.4% of global fossil fuel consumption and 67.8% of global fossil CO2 emissions.

      Unless China annexed the US, the EU, India, Russia, and Japan and I just haven’t gotten the memo yet…

      Source

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      They’ve done a lot about that, like becoming the global leader in pretty much every renewable sector as well as nuclear. Also, worth mentioning that smooth brained liberals have all their stuff produced in China. It’s absolute idiocy to bleat about pollution without considering where consumption is happening. Per capita energy usage in China is far lower than in the west.

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      In terms of particulates? China’s really cleaned that up in recent years.

      But, well, China doesn’t have massive piles of natural gas it can burn instead of coal. Coal is notoriously dirty.

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      Yes. And the same country that produces all the shit we order from them. So is it their pollution or ours?

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      Isn’t this the same country that also produces per capita 1/4th the pollution of USA, and the single country that manufactures almost all of the world’s goods, effectively bringing total world’s pollution to way less than if many countries were manufacturing?

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        Also the country that dominates green energy manufacturing… Which is what everyone else is using to reduce their emissions.