One of those countries is not like the others, and name rhymes with Dhina.
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One of those countries is not like the others, and name rhymes with Dhina. They are increasingly building coal energy plants.
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While it is true that China builds coal plants, they invest way more green energy. So please stop the disinformation.
Bonus question:
How much of the global energy build in 2023 was renewable?!<
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How is it disinformation?
Having a lot of green energy means nothing if you are still building coal plants each week.
Meanwhile the rest of the world is not building them anymore and even closing them.
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China is transitioning faster than most other countries.
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Let's at least have some better graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_power_in_China#/media/File:Electricity_generation_in_China_by_source.png
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China's energy use is still rising. In terms of g CO2e/kWh, yes, they're transitioning rapidly. But in terms of total CO2e emitted, China's footprint is still expanding its footprint unless there's an economic crisis (like the recent excess housing/tofu dreg crisis).
Part of the reason for that is that China's primary motivation for their use of wind/solar/batteries is economics, rather than the prevention of climate change or biodiversity loss.
In the late 2000's, Chinese leadership realized that wind/solar/battery technologies could be viable worldwide, and that they could be optimized heavily. They also knew that, besides oil/gas imports being costly, they probably couldn't ever import enough oil/gas to bring the Chinese average lifestyle up to the standard envisioned in their plan. And of course, they had massive smog problems—one important point was that during the 2008 Olympics, the government had many factories and coal plants turned off, to avoid national embarrassment over the level of smog in Beijing. So they heavily invested in this stuff, Chinese companies became market leaders, yada.
