> China brought 50 new coal plants online in 2025 alone but keep telling yourself that. If China (and India and …) sees the US and other industrialized doing n

> China brought 50 new coal plants online in 2025 alone but keep telling yourself that. If China (and India and …) sees the US and other industrialized doing nothing, why should they do anything? The most straight-forward way of solving is either through cap-and-trade (like acid rain was dealt with) or 'carbon dividend' (which Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen, Volker, etc endorsed): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economists%27_Statement_on_Carbon_Dividends https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economists%27_Statement_on_Car... Then you put a 'carbon tariff' on imports for any country that does not have a similar system (e.g., EU's CBAM).