> This is a main selling point of having a high proportion of your politicians having an engineering background. At what price for democracy and for human righ

> This is a main selling point of having a high proportion of your politicians having an engineering background. At what price for democracy and for human rights? And how is China progressing on transitioning to renewable energy? Hint: it doesn't [0]. (Not that western lawyer-led nations do better...) Having promised a reduction of 65% by 2030 [1], I guess they do count on those nuclear projects working out in the end, but at their scale and with 85% of their energy consumption coming from fossil fuels [2], they do seem to have their work cut out for them. [0] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-carbon-emissions-grow-at-fastest-rate-for-more-than-a-decade https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-carbon-emissions... [1] https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/targets/ https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/targets/ [2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-region?stackMode=absolute&country=~CHN https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...