This prob gonna get me banned, but yeah, they make everything…
They burn fuel for the demand of other countries, would be good if there was a way to track the emissions back to the countries fuelling (heh) the demand.
Basically, countries are outsourcing their emissions and then pointing the blame entirely at China. So China is definitely at fault, but other countries need to take some responsibility for that as well.
This prob gonna get me banned, but yeah, they make everything…
They burn fuel for the demand of other countries, would be good if there was a way to track the emissions back to the countries fuelling (heh) the demand.
Basically, countries are outsourcing their emissions and then pointing the blame entirely at China. So China is definitely at fault, but other countries need to take some responsibility for that as well.
You can adjust for trade. It makes a fairly modest difference, about 9% of China’s emissions — the problem is China burning coal to support its own internal consumption.
That said, every country needs to drop to zero extraction and zero burning, not just China.
Yea, but it would be awesome if the country doing the most would stop.
It isn’t like China is an infallible state…
They’re probably going to peak emissions this year or next due to the huge wind and solar build-out that’s in progress — it means that those coal plants will sit idle much of the time.
That’s a valid point, but also China doesn’t really care about emissions standards. They could operate in a much cleaner fashion than they do.