In western nations there seems to be a consensus into thinking that CO2 and GDP are bolted together and that industries can't become more efficient. Interesting

In western nations there seems to be a consensus into thinking that CO2 and GDP are bolted together and that industries can't become more efficient. Interestingly, that is totally and utterly wrong. Since the 90, we emit about 50% less CO2 per dollar of GDP produced (PPP, so inflation-adjusted): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PP.GD https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PP.GD Chinese citizens have cars, but they pay extra if it is not electric. Go visit Shenzhen one day to see the result: all the cheap vehicles are electric-powered tricyle, bikes or small truck. The technological solution is there. It is a combination of clean energy (which includes nuclear, something that needs to be hammered on) and electric vehicles. We have these solutions now. The reason why it is not adopted worldwide is political. And countries like China who subsidize EV and tax thermal vehicles are showing the way. Seriously: look at the energy mix of France, look at how fast their electrical production became mostly nuclear and produced very low emissions. The whole world needs to make a similar nuclear plant production run and switch to electric vehicles. There is nothing to solve in terms of technology, We'll make the batteries a bit better, a bit cheaper but even that would be totally unnecessary with a strong political will.