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Comment by davidhbolton | Hacker News Reader

Why does China get a free pass? It's the worlds largest miner of coal and is building many new coal fired power stations. For instance. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-28/riozim-se... and https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-will-china-build-hundre...

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China has levelled of since 2011 while still maintaining their incredible economic growth. Quite remarkable actually. On the other hand it's quite easy to spot the outliers.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...

US CO2 emissions per capita have been declining significantly since 2011.

Who mentioned China? USA is more of a problem, twice the CO2 emissions per capita as the average developed economy, China makes more EV busses every day than the rest of the world has in total.

I find it entirely reasonable that largest country by the population in the world is also largest miner of coal. That is exactly how it should be. Now the bigger issue is with countries that don't rank similarly to their population size...

Why do you think they does? I’m so tired of always hearing the deflection: “oh lock at China, they are much worse”. No, they aren’t. Their per capita emissions are still much lower than Europe and North America. I wish they did more, but the productive (and mature) thing to do is to focus on what we should do, not whine about what someone else should.

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