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China is rapidly going green.

• reducesuffering 8mo ago
  Is the US even more rapidly going green? https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?hideControls=false&Gas+or+Warming=CO%E2%82%82&Accounting=Territorial&Fuel+or+Land+Use+Change=All+fossil+emissions&Count=Per+country&country=CHN~USA~IND~GBR~OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?hideControls=false&... China's emissions were 10 billion tons CO2 in 2017 and have increased every single year to 12.29 billion tons CO2 in 2024. Meanwhile, US decreased from 5.22 to 4.9 in the same time
  • michaelmrose 8mo ago
    1/4 the population. Per capita we are 65% worse not considering how much of China's pollution is on our behalf
    • Windchaser 8mo ago
      Yeah, and don't even get me started on historic emissions. China has only produced significant CO2/capita in the last decade. The US and Europe are responsible for the accumulated GHG that have gotten us into the current mess. We blew nearly the entire CO2 "budget" for keeping us under 2C of warming, just by ourselves, so it's kinda odd to be pointing fingers at the foreigners who are just now halfway catching up to what we're emitting now.
      • reducesuffering 7mo ago
        But those historic emissions have also produced scientific and engineering progress that other developing nations got to piggyback off of for their development.
        • Windchaser 7mo ago
          Aye, true, but we also then have a responsibility to produce scientific and engineering progress to get off of fossil fuels. And then to follow through, and get off fossil fuels.
  • shoxidizer 8mo ago
    Both these trends have reversed in 2025. US emissions icreased by 2.5% https://rhg.com/research/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2025/ https://rhg.com/research/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2025/ China's emmisions have decreased by <1% https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-emissions-decline https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-emissions-decline