• asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    Nothing shows real commitment to fighting climate change like blocking affordable electric vehicles and solar panels, while still subsidizing fossil fuel industries.

    • GaryLeChat@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 month ago

      Now do emissions per capita! Something in this graph is suspicious to me with Canada being so low compared to other data I've seen.

      • Hexboare [they/them]
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        1 month ago

        Consumption is also important to account for countries (UK) that consumes products produced offshore (China)

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        On a per capita basis, China doesn't even make the top 20. Interestingly, the data are out there but no one seems to have made a visualization yet. I'll take a crack at it later.

        I think Canada just gets away with having a tiny population - at 38 million, they're at roughly 5% of the combined US/EU population. Higher cumulative per capita emissions than the US, though.

  • TheChemist [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    If I am correct, I remember hearing about how China is one of the biggest investors towards going green.

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      Almost certainly the biggest. The things I've seen in China are mind-blowing. We were on the road and I thought I was looking at the sea, or a lake. Turned out it was a huge solar farm at the base of a mountain. It took us about 20 minutes to drive past it at around 100km/h. It was still being built. This was in Xinjiang. They have wind farms that stretch for tens to hundreds of kilometres too.