China is the only country that is seriously doing anything about anything. They've single handedly built more renewable energy capacity than every other country combined, they've pulled millions of diesel and gasoline cars off roads, reforested one of the world's biggest deserts, this year they've finally reduced coal usage, and next year the long awaited Tokamak is set to fire for the first time.
replyThe US is busy sending warships across the planet to blow up oil refineries which will be rebuilt. It's not bad enough we are busy grinding sand, but we are actively making things worse.
And with that they built the manufacturing engine that is supplying the rest of the world with renewable tech
replyTo be fair, closing the straight of hormuz has probably put a dent in carbon emissions.
replyTemporarily, all of the middle east oil infrastructure will be rebuilt because their biggest customer still has no real tangible plan to wean itself off.
replyIs US the biggest customer?
replyYou can't really have this both ways. Closing Hormuz and blowing up Iranian export facilities has been massively decarbonizing. Chinese solar exports are massively up because countries have had to find new energy sources.
replyOil is a small proportion of carbon emissions. Coal is where it's at, and Iran has very little to do with that.
replyChinese solar was a big deal globally long before Trump's Iran blunder
replyhttps://apnews.com/article/wind-solar-energy-china-climate-c...
replyRepublicans are the bad guys right now.
Per capita CO2 emissions in the US are down about 36% from their 1973 peak (https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions).
replySo? It’s still multiples more than other places.
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