- cross-posted to:
- green@lemmy.ml
- climate@kbin.social
The complete phasing-out of fossil fuels is not realistic, China’s top climate official said, adding that these climate-warming fuels must continue to play a vital role in maintaining global energy security.
Because on a per-capita basis, you still outpollute China by a factor of at least 2?
Because unlike China, your government moves incredibly slowly and needs more momentum to actually accomplish change?
Carbon is carbon, mass is mass, and heat is heat, none of it cares about population size, we could just as easily look at it as a per-gdp basis, and it would be just as useful
Government of China says we don’t need to change, or at least they don’t, I don’t think I should either then. Especially considering no climate change policy works without the whole world decarbonizing, including China, regardless of how small their number looks on a per capita basis
China is moving faster on renewables than every other country. China is moving faster on EVs than every other country.
Who’s not changing?
All these different measures and not the only one that matters lol
If you feel like giving China a domestic supply of O&G so they can switch their coal plants to gas ones, be my guest.
That’s been the single greatest contributor to reduced emissions in North America and Europe over the past few decades.