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Once China starts shutting down its old steel mills and coal plants, their emissions should drop drastically. That’s when USA will be left as the number 1 polluter in the world.
US is already #1 polluter per capita. China pollutes twice as much as US, but has over 4 times the population. Its quite incredible how little China pollutes already (considering how much or the world's goods they make). But obviously, I'm all for every country polluting less.
In recent decades, China has invested heavily on building renewable energy infrastructure. I think it's a matter of time until they start deploying arch furnaces, and grid energy storage. If/when that happens, Chinese emissions could be much lower than many other countries, no matter how you measure it.
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We are number one!
People with more money than god would rather spend more time and money defending the use of a dead technology than ensuring another few generations of their descendents multiply their wealth into the sun by investing two cents into literally just modern technology, more at 11.
Don't look up
US moves to continue to eliminate conditions that allow humans to breathe & thrive on Planet Earth
But think of the money that could be made!
& saved! yippee!!!
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025
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