China has worked enormously to make clean energy more affordable, has dramatically overhauled its energy production (and is continuing to do so), and is fighting desertification atvrapid speeds. The EU on the other hand may be internally more green by ratio, but per capita consumes far more than China. This is because the EU relies on exploiting the global south for its consumption due to imperialism, the actual net impact of the EU is negative. The actual climate gains have largely come from China.
China has a high per captia co2 emissions than the EU by a significant margin. For all the “good” they’ve done in renewables they’ve done just as much damage expanding their non renewable power. Its sad that you fall for such obvious greenwashing I thought people of lemmy were more inteligent than that. The anti desertification is pretty much DOA since China is already struggling with water and the forest is artificial and monocultured. They’ve cut down forests to build factories, they zone factories to close to residential areas leading to cities with some of the lowest air quality in the world. They dont rotate crops and destory the soil nutrients, they dam up every river destroying downstream ecosystems, they pollute water systems that feel into their own villages. To act like they build solar panels out of a car for the environment is naive. They made the choice to ignore global efforts to reduce emissions should everyone be allowed to do that?
China has worked enormously to make clean energy more affordable, has dramatically overhauled its energy production (and is continuing to do so), and is fighting desertification atvrapid speeds. The EU on the other hand may be internally more green by ratio, but per capita consumes far more than China. This is because the EU relies on exploiting the global south for its consumption due to imperialism, the actual net impact of the EU is negative. The actual climate gains have largely come from China.
China has a high per captia co2 emissions than the EU by a significant margin. For all the “good” they’ve done in renewables they’ve done just as much damage expanding their non renewable power. Its sad that you fall for such obvious greenwashing I thought people of lemmy were more inteligent than that. The anti desertification is pretty much DOA since China is already struggling with water and the forest is artificial and monocultured. They’ve cut down forests to build factories, they zone factories to close to residential areas leading to cities with some of the lowest air quality in the world. They dont rotate crops and destory the soil nutrients, they dam up every river destroying downstream ecosystems, they pollute water systems that feel into their own villages. To act like they build solar panels out of a car for the environment is naive. They made the choice to ignore global efforts to reduce emissions should everyone be allowed to do that?