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China burns significantly more coal than the USA and Europe combined and has no environmental laws standing in the way of their nuclear power plants. Imagine a
by declan_roberts 6mo ago
China burns significantly more coal than the USA and Europe combined and has no environmental laws standing in the way of their nuclear power plants.
Imagine a world where people don't care about labeling new things as "regressive" or "anti-environmental"
- j16sdiz 6mo agoChina is doing that because they are profitable, not because they care about the environment. Why would they care the coal use?
- dmix 6mo agoHaving lots of cheap energy is always boosts industry and reduces cost of living for everyone. The way China accomplished that was by investing heavily in every sort of energy and building large scale infrastructure, instead of adding roadblocks at every stage.
- budududuroiu 6mo ago> China burns significantly more coal than the USA and Europe combined Which is expected when both Europe and the US outsourced most manufacturing to China. It's actually surprising China is so low given they're literally the factory of the world
- ahhhhnoooo 6mo agoChina's coal use is shrinking recently, and their solar investment is in the hundreds of GW annually. Don't look at where the ball is, look at where the ball is going.
- timbit42 6mo agoChina doesn't have much oil or natural gas but they have lots of coal so that's their backup until they can get enough renewables built.
- tzs 6mo ago> China burns significantly more coal than the USA and Europe combined [...] And the USA burns more natural gas than China, and the USA burns more oil than China. All this simply reflects both using the fossil fuels they have the most abundant, reliable, and cheap supply of when they need to burn fossil fuels.