You know, there is an obvious solution...JUST MAKE CLEAN ENERGY AND GREEN SOLUTIONS IN YOUR COUNTRY TOO!
That is dire news. We need to ramp up our clean energy production fast to counter the Chinese threat!
More likely that they will try to undermine China's efforts.
Oh no! Not investing in clean energy! Everyone else has been sitting on their ass while China actually tries to do something and that's seen as a bad thing?
China is under no obligation to invest in clean energy: as a developing nation, the costs of climate change are going to be offset by the benefits of electrification and industralization pulling people out of poverty. The opposite is true in developed countries: it's increasingly difficult to improve the lives of people in developed countries, so the marginal benefit of more fossil fuels consumption is offset by the costs of climate change. Given that that's true, what the fuck is the developed Western world doing?
