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Oh yes, because China, the #1 polluter in the world (exceeding US, Europe, Russia and Brazil combined together) is very known to be the first and foremost voice in greening endeavours

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I wonder why that is...maybe because they manufacture and produce everything?

As an example, my humble homecountry of Switzerland was the fourth-worst CO2 polluter worldwide if you count CO2 by consumption, not production.

China, the country with one of the largest populations in the world, that produces less CO2 per capita than three quarters of Europe, including such green hearts as Germany or Finland, while still producing a quarter of the entire world's goods.

isn't China producing more electricity with solar than all other countries combined (with solar)?

No?

It's however (according to China's official statistics) the country with the highest solar energy production.

It also burns the most coal for electricity though, that makes it clear that China just needs an insane amount of electricity. Regardless wherever it's green, brown or toxic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_solar_generation_...

Really? China's co2 emission per capita is half of the US.

and their capita is 4x that of the US.

So, China needs to cut down their emissions to half, to afford the US to continue being the highest per-capita polluter. Sounds about right.

What's your suggestion then? For China to reduce its population by 3/4 (wasn't China heavily criticized for enforcing birth-control?), or to acknowledge that Chinese citizens (or those of any other country with a population greater than that of the US) don't deserve to enjoy the same standard of living as US citizens?

how much of that is because half of the country is still incredibly poor? broke dudes living in coffin apartments and poor rural villagers don't emit a lot of carbon. kinda like their meme about the dude in an apartment who just has a mattress and a PS5 causes less waste, etc.

and their population is 4-5 times larger.

I'm not really sure what your point is...

Okay and? Wouldn't the fact that their population is 4-5x larger also mean that it makes sense for them to pollute more? And regarding your first point, I don't see how that's relevant to China polluting more or less per capita. They still do pollute less per capita.

They would benefit from exposing big western coorporations. By dragging them down, they go relatively up.

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