KUTradition wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:19 am
DC’s response to climate talk seems to always be “but China”
while there’s some truth there, it’s a weak-ass deflection, and pitiful justification for not doing more
but it’s anti-left/anti-liberal, so…
I don't think it's weak at all. He is 100% right that China is by far the biggest negative impact to global climate change.
As of July 2022, there were 1,118 coal fired power plants in China, the most in the world. So much more in fact that it is more than the #2-#18 countries India, US, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, Germany, Turkey, Poland, Turkey, Vietnam, Philippines, Chechia, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Taiwan, Australia and South Africa COMBINED. The US has 225.
But it doesn't mean that we shouldn't be doing everything we can in our own nation to do what we can. Especially if it can generate some new economies for tens of thousands of decent paying US jobs.