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China has lower Per capita CO₂ emissions than Europe, the United States has higher emissions than the previous two combined:
https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2
http://archive.today/2023.07.04-193431/https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-of-the-day/2021/10/the-us-still-produces-far-higher-per-capita-emissions-than-china
China is on track to nearly double its wind and solar capacity by 2025 and blow past the country’s 2030 clean power target five years early, according to Global Energy Monitor.
2022 - Sinopec has estimated that 10.68 million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be injected into the oilfield over the next 15 years, boosting crude oil production by nearly 3 million tonnes. Last year Sinopec captured and stored more than 1.52 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.
If anything it's the United States that needs to be stopped, and thankfully multipolarity is making this a reality soon.
Thanks for dropping the facts comrade. It's hard for some people to understand that having 1.4 billion people means you can't compare apples to apples with USA or Europe. China is by far working the hardest on lowering their carbon footprint.
And yes, I'm considering the SocDems in Europe, those people don't use a lot of energy because they produce nothing. If their overseas manufacturing plants produce carbon, it's not part of their footprint, on paper. China produces many things, their footprint matters to many countries.
Having 1.4 billion people isn't exactly responsible either, though. Call it what you want, China is still responsible for the lion's share of pollution (not just CO2).
China: we are worried about overpopulation, we will tax over 1 child
Westerners: authoritarian!
China: Birth rate slowed, stopped the tax, has 1.4 billion people
Westerners: ugh you have too many people! Irresponsible!!!
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USA is still accountable for more c02 pollution in the atmosphere than any other country. And keys be honest, USA and Europe are responsible for most of the pollution of all kinds in the world. Please break out of your bubble...
There might be other ways to control population like, oh, say, sexual education or free contraceptives. It is totally the Chinese, authoritarian way of thinking that lead you to where you're at now.
And it's single minded liberal thinking that makes you believe that these things are mutually exclusive, and putting words into my mouth to say things I never said.
How difficult is it to flip a switch in educate one and a half billion people? How long does that take for it to take effect? How can you get high quality education into rural societies that may not even have access to the internet?
This is the problem with liberals, there's only one solution isn't there? Everybody believes the same thing, right? The solution that works for me will work for everyone...
Of course access to sex ed and condoms will help, I believe that. And China is now doing that too. But that's so easy to Google, I know you didn't even try. They didn't need to tax multiple kids forever, they needed to slow it down quickly. And they've removed that tax.
Westerners use taxation to incentivize or decentivize action all the time, is that authoritarian? Please, for one fucking second, turn your excellent deduction skills (lol) inward onto yourself for a moment.
Ah yes, as you can see from the cranium of this skull, the Chinese brain is simply predisposed to authoritarian thought... 🙄