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by belltaco 1007 days ago
Understand the context first instead of believing the simplistic memes pushed by climate change denialists. For example, in India the reason is that there was a shortage of natural gas which became scarce and super expensive because of world events, so they had to build more coal power plants to not have blackouts. Solar is still growing fast, 82% of new capacity in 2022 was solar, and there's a lot more in the pipeline.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/06/29/solar-82-of-power-capac...

37% of new car sales in China are either full electric or plugin hybrid. 25% are full electric BEVs. The west is far behind.