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Every news article that touts a nation phasing out coal should be forced to mention China increased its coal mining capacity by 1 billion tons to 3.4 billion to

Every news article that touts a nation phasing out coal should be forced to mention China increased its coal mining capacity by 1 billion tons to 3.4 billion tons (1), not even counting imports. Then go on to express the peak consumption of the nation everyone is celebrating as a fraction of total Chinese output (e.g., Australia consumes 3.4% equivalent of China's total coal output of 3.4 billion tons (2)). Congratulations on phasing out your margin of error... Now are your trade and foreign policy divisions going to get serious, or we content patting ourselves on the back here? 1. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-has-more-than-1-bln-tonsyear-new-coal-mines-pipeline-report-says-2024-09-10/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-has-more-than-... 2.https://www.worldometers.info/coal/australia-coal/ https://www.worldometers.info/coal/australia-coal/

ZeroGravitas 2y ago
Some would consider just saving money and not poisoning their children to be reward enough in itself.
pjc50 2y ago
The relative populations are 26,639,000 and 1,410,710,000, so Australia has 1.8% of the population of China. Which compared to that 3.4% of coal output implies that per capita coal consumption of Australia is twice that of China. (or you conclude that it's Australia itself which is the rounding error?)
Ghaenergyyy 2y ago
Soooooo you think we should stop doing anything just because someone else still outperforms us in this aspect? This is a very cheap excuse and i can't hear it anymore after hearing this stuipid argument for so long. Look at all the graphs we have, from ocean temperature graph going up, to co2 going up, to amazonas tree coverage going down etc. etc. Btw. China does the same thing as every other country: They install more and more solar. "China continues to lead the world in wind and solar, with twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined" China will have the same pressure or problem as australia has it. Yes we are patting our backs here because its good news. Should we continue pushing for more? Yes. Do we need to spin everything good into anything negative? No.

ZeroGravitas 2y ago

Some would consider just saving money and not poisoning their children to be reward enough in itself.

pjc50 2y ago

The relative populations are 26,639,000 and 1,410,710,000, so Australia has 1.8% of the population of China. Which compared to that 3.4% of coal output implies that per capita coal consumption of Australia is twice that of China. (or you conclude that it's Australia itself which is the rounding error?)

Ghaenergyyy 2y ago

Soooooo you think we should stop doing anything just because someone else still outperforms us in this aspect? This is a very cheap excuse and i can't hear it anymore after hearing this stuipid argument for so long. Look at all the graphs we have, from ocean temperature graph going up, to co2 going up, to amazonas tree coverage going down etc. etc. Btw. China does the same thing as every other country: They install more and more solar. "China continues to lead the world in wind and solar, with twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined" China will have the same pressure or problem as australia has it. Yes we are patting our backs here because its good news. Should we continue pushing for more? Yes. Do we need to spin everything good into anything negative? No.