'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month
'Winning the race': How China plans to meet its 2030 renewables target by the end of this month
While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.
Is it lying about it? I bet it's lying about it.
Secret sauce is nuclear.
Fallout.
They produce more pollution than anyone.
There are something like 1.2 billion people living in China and the rest of the world has moved a ton of manufacturing there, of course the country produce more pollution than any another. But per capita, they are not number one. Here's the carbon dioxide production per capita for the entire world. Other type of pollution will obviously by different but I'm not sure they are first per capita in any category.
Both the US and China should be held accountable and you should make excuses for neither. We all know coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel, and China still consumes over 50% of the entire world's yearly coal. China is responsible for the largest share of CO2 emissions each year by far, and only China can take action to change that, regardless of any per capita measure
Per capita is a terrible measure when it comes to greenhouse gases. That Wikipedia list puts Palau at number one per capita.
It doesn't matter how much each individual person is putting out, it matters how much is being put out in total.
And in that case, these are the top five. None of them, including China, are coming close to doing anywhere near enough:
In total, yes. Per capita, they will have to pollute even harder to beat USA.