Yale Climate Opinion Maps

Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by mrpopo on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:53AM (#14032009)

China is the world's biggest investor in solar technology and hopes to grow its solar power to 20GW by 2020. [1]

China forced all taxi drivers in Beijing to use electric cars, a desperate and very controversial move. [2]

China is highly subsidizing its high-speed rail companies, bleeding billions of dollars per year, to cut other transportation methods. [3]

I am not saying to follow their example (some of their actions are probably not the best investments, environmentally speaking), but saying they do not have a real plan is quite untrue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China

[2] http://mashable.com/2017/02/27/china-electric-taxis/#r749sZh...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China

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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by noobiemcfoob on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:05PM (#14034135)

And China's example proves nothing here. Am I supposed to be surprised that an authoritarian government somehow finagled the political capital to invest in industries guaranteed to be highly disruptive to its most major economic competitor? Cuz I'm not.

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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by mrpopo on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:44PM (#14038344)

My point was to prove the fact that China does have real plans to cut on emissions. Your answer is that their policies are economically viable and future-proof. I don't understand what is your point.

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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by noobiemcfoob on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:44AM (#14042015)

Economically viable only in a political climate utterly alien and therefore nontransferable to America.

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Re:Yale Climate Opinion Maps by netzone on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:06AM (#14032694)

China is a good example of when a dictatorship(ish) can do good (more than a democracy regarding the same issue) when focused on the right thing

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