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Re:Most people don't realize how much progress we've made on... by tomekf on Monday December 04, 2023 @12:33PM (#38520225)
China is producing more CO2 in a week than many more countries in a year. Same with coal production. They also build many new coal plants (together with atomic ones). China should be first place to address emission.
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Re:Most people don't realize how much progress we've made on... by dragonwriter on Monday December 04, 2023 @12:35PM (#38520250)
> China is producing more CO2 in a week than many more countries in a year.

Well, yeah, China is more than 52 times the population of many other countries, so that's hardly surprising.

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Re:Most people don't realize how much progress we've made on... by corethree on Monday December 04, 2023 @10:11PM (#38526635)
Right. It needs to be measured per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...

From here it's easily seen that An individual in the US is on average one of the worst offenders while an individual from China is doing extremely well.

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Re:Most people don't realize how much progress we've made on... by corethree on Monday December 04, 2023 @12:41PM (#38520318)
You're right. We should be glad it's centrally controlled. If business interests in china were able to insert their own democratic opinion into the debate the problem would be much worse.

It begs the question how good is democracy when huge powerful corporate entities with only business interests in mind are able to participate in a democracy? There's no clear answer here.

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