China Helped Indonesia Build One of the World’s Biggest, Youngest Coal Fleets. It’s Still Growing. (insideclimatenews.org)

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Indonesia is one of the few countries still building new coal power plants, the most polluting sources of power. Chinese companies are playing a large role despite a pledge by Beijing to halt such support.

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[-] klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 day ago

But but but green china? Solar panels? Are they just moving the pollution elsewhere and spit-shining a turd?

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

No. They're both doing things which make a difference, and exporting the technology to cause others to develop in a costly and high-pollution way

[-] klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

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