update to this classic with some recent headlines
For anyone that’s not twigged it yet
They’re already turning this into another culture war to ensure they can continue to enrich the establishment.
The petrochemical industry has a lot of money to burn on propaganda if it’s facing an existential threat.
Remember this when you read anything other than “we should be decarbonising as quickly as possible”
The best thing for everyone (in basically every possible way) except petrochemical shareholders is heavy investment in renewable technology and the ending of petrochemical subsidies.
Turning? It’s been a culture war topic for decades already now
if you can’t stuff the sun into barrels and sell it for outrageous profits, is it even of any use?
The next move is probably them selling solar “subscriptions” where you don’t pay the full price of panels/storage but instead pay a monthly fee that works out to way more than the cost of installation in the long run
if you can’t stuff the sun into barrels and sell it for outrageous profits
H-bomb confirms
I may not like many of what I know of China’s policies (genocide, suppression of free speech etc.), but this is one of the things they have done well.
what until you see how much more genocide & suppression the united states has inflicted upon the world. lol
That’s a laughing matter to you?
you have to laugh at the absurdity of the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to genocide & suppression; especially so when the american pot is SO MUCH blacker than the chinese kettle.
and laughing becomes a coping strategy when an overwhelming majority of americans and other westerners have swallowed so much propaganda that they willfully & sometimes violently remain ignorant of it.
You’re not seriously suggesting that china is any better. They are part of the system. They just recognized that selling solar pannels and stuff to othercountries is very profitable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable_electricity_production
China is in first place with 32% of global renewable electricity production. They have built more solar capacity than the rest of the world has ever had installed in one year. No other countries are anywhere close to the green acceleration they have purposefully spearheaded for themselves and the world.
Your source also compares the renewalable percentage of overall electricity production, where China lands at roughly spot 100, placing it near Poland.
placing it near Poland
and well above the US, France and Japan
per capita consumption mix is probably a more useful comparison
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-source-stackedI’d really like to see a graph with per GDP energy consumption mix as well. Most of the countries with better mix than China have a fraction of the GDP.
“China bad”
They installed a shitload of it too though. They’re not just selling it.
The PRC is a socialist country, they aren’t “part of the same system.” Unless you mean that they do trade with the rest of the world, but that’s true of all countries. The PRC is far better than the US, and it isn’t close.
It’s always business, irrelevant if you sell petrol or solar cells. But last is way better for the environment, while fossil fuel destroy it.
Not good, but still better. sadly
