• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    19 hours ago

    I would hope so given how much pollution they’re responsible for. They should have already been there or at least been close. Europe’s at 50% now and China is still on par with the US who’ve been run by a child rapist for the better part of a decade.

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      50 minutes ago

      Worth noting the US is still ahead on total cumulative emissions, and if you adjust per capita (which is only fair), China doesn’t even hit the top 20.

      Meanwhile, they installed more solar than the rest of the world combined last year.

      Like, I’m not absolving them, they could be doing more, but right now they’re embarrassing us on how fast they’re pivoting.

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      12 hours ago

      I mean China is still in the tail end of industrialisation, the fact they’ve come this far in such a short amount of time is astonishing.

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        5 hours ago

        By that logic why would any country have to reduce emissions. Reduce emissions nah im on the tail end of industrialisation so im not gonna do that. Im sure global warming will be happy to wait because we all know once you finish industrialisation emissions hit 0.

        • But China is reducing emissions, what are you on about? China has a disproportionate amount of the world’s production capacity, if it reduced that it’d have massive worldwide economic ramifications (meaning other countries wouldn’t have the money to reduce emissions either).