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by nostromo 1042 days ago
> You sure about that ?

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.