The Trump administration proposed on July 29 to revoke the 2009 finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that greenhouse gases endanger public health, a move that would gut the government’s ability to regulate fossil fuels and reject decades of scientific evidence.
Once China starts shutting down its old steel mills and coal plants, their emissions should drop drastically. That’s when USA will be left as the number 1 polluter in the world.
US is already #1 polluter per capita. China pollutes twice as much as US, but has over 4 times the population. Its quite incredible how little China pollutes already (considering how much or the world’s goods they make). But obviously, I’m all for every country polluting less.
Factor in a lot of that pollution is because they are the wests factory and we would be polluting more.
In recent decades, China has invested heavily on building renewable energy infrastructure. I think it’s a matter of time until they start deploying arch furnaces, and grid energy storage. If/when that happens, Chinese emissions could be much lower than many other countries, no matter how you measure it.
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We are number one!