| > Estimates are that only around 10% of Chinese carbon emissions are for foreign exports Here it says 33%: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14412-33-of-chinas-ca... > They are uniquely bad in this regard, compared to their peers like India and other developing economies. Of course India is nowhere close to China, they basically don't exist in term of exports. These countries have almost nothing in common besides having a large population https://statisticsanddata.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Top... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports > while China is moving in the wrong direction. You sure about that ? https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/267233/renewable-energy-c... Again it's easy to pollute less when you literally shut down all your industries. You can't ask for more and more growth, cheaper and cheaper prices and 0 pollution. > China does not care about climate change in the slightest. Not more or less than 99% of countries on this earth, including the US and most of Europe. If they did they'd have stopped their Chinese imports a long time ago, as well as most of their exports and massively reduced their energy usage (daily reminder than the average US household uses 4 times more energy than a German one) |
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.