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Yes, China built six times the number of coal plants of the entire rest of the world last year. Six times! It's inexcusable.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
Meanwhile the US has mothballed half of it's coal plants in 10 years:
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_04_01.html
> Here it says 33%
You're clearly cherry picking very old data (2008) that is not published research to try and make a point here. The references aren't even comparable.
> If they did they'd have stopped their Chinese imports a long time ago
Plenty of people would be delighted to embargo China due to their environmental record. If that's what you're proposing, we agree.
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Yes, China built six times the number of coal plants of the entire rest of the world last year. Six times! It's inexcusable.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
Meanwhile the US has mothballed half of it's coal plants in 10 years:
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_04_01.html
> Here it says 33%
You're clearly cherry picking very old data (2008) that is not published research to try and make a point here. The references aren't even comparable.
> If they did they'd have stopped their Chinese imports a long time ago
Plenty of people would be delighted to embargo China due to their environmental record. If that's what you're proposing, we agree.