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Great. Another nail in the coffin of the economy.

nxm 4y ago
Everyone praising this will wonder why the cost of everything has gone up once it’s implemented. Meanwhile India and China continue to build many coal fired power plants each year
- isthispermanent 4y ago
  To be fair though China is doing a lot of work to get to renewables. They are currently the largest producers of solar/nuclear/wind electricity: https://www.maxinomics.com/map/solar-electricity-generation https://www.maxinomics.com/map/solar-electricity-generation
- jylam 4y ago
  > Everyone praising this will wonder why the cost of everything has gone up once it’s implemented People are not a bunch of idiots. Climate change is very real. Using other sources of energy requires investments. It is mandatory. All those are facts, as far as I know. If your only arguments are "it will hurt the economy" and "people won't understand", you didn't take the measure of the problem and are part of it. That's very short-sighted, and tends to prove you don't really know what you are talking about.
- themitigating 4y ago
  "The other kids are doing bad things, we should do them" Is that your argument? Because someone else is polluting we should?
- ZeroGravitas 4y ago
  Talking of India: Indian coal magnate Gautam Adani goes green > Asia’s richest man, coal magnate Gautam Adani, made his vast fortune betting on coal as an energy hungry India grew swiftly after its economy was liberalized in the 1990s > He's now set his sights on becoming the world's biggest renewable energy player, by 2030, adroitly aligning his investments with the government’s own priorities. > As India grapples with climate change, the Adani Group, whose operations also span ports, power, farming and defense manufacturing, plans to invest $70 billion in solar, wind and other green energy projects over the next decade. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/gautam-adani-ap-narendra-modi-adani-group-indian-b2237444.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/gautam-adani-ap-narendra-...
- smileysteve 4y ago
  It seems your position that change can never happen - that no one should be an idealist as long as anybody else is not an idealist?
- yongjik 4y ago
  Then you should be happy as this policy will directly interfere with India's and China's exports to Europe, resulting in less demand for coal power and also less money for them to build coal plants.

nxm 4y ago

Everyone praising this will wonder why the cost of everything has gone up once it’s implemented. Meanwhile India and China continue to build many coal fired power plants each year

isthispermanent 4y ago
To be fair though China is doing a lot of work to get to renewables. They are currently the largest producers of solar/nuclear/wind electricity: https://www.maxinomics.com/map/solar-electricity-generation https://www.maxinomics.com/map/solar-electricity-generation
jylam 4y ago
> Everyone praising this will wonder why the cost of everything has gone up once it’s implemented People are not a bunch of idiots. Climate change is very real. Using other sources of energy requires investments. It is mandatory. All those are facts, as far as I know. If your only arguments are "it will hurt the economy" and "people won't understand", you didn't take the measure of the problem and are part of it. That's very short-sighted, and tends to prove you don't really know what you are talking about.
themitigating 4y ago
"The other kids are doing bad things, we should do them" Is that your argument? Because someone else is polluting we should?
ZeroGravitas 4y ago
Talking of India: Indian coal magnate Gautam Adani goes green > Asia’s richest man, coal magnate Gautam Adani, made his vast fortune betting on coal as an energy hungry India grew swiftly after its economy was liberalized in the 1990s > He's now set his sights on becoming the world's biggest renewable energy player, by 2030, adroitly aligning his investments with the government’s own priorities. > As India grapples with climate change, the Adani Group, whose operations also span ports, power, farming and defense manufacturing, plans to invest $70 billion in solar, wind and other green energy projects over the next decade. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/gautam-adani-ap-narendra-modi-adani-group-indian-b2237444.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/gautam-adani-ap-narendra-...
smileysteve 4y ago
It seems your position that change can never happen - that no one should be an idealist as long as anybody else is not an idealist?
yongjik 4y ago
Then you should be happy as this policy will directly interfere with India's and China's exports to Europe, resulting in less demand for coal power and also less money for them to build coal plants.