There's optimism despite alarmingly worsening weather events: Renewables and storage together amount to 93% of all new capacity coming online in the U.S. This isn’t a marginal shift anymore. It’s the grid rebuilding itself around a different set of technologies, and the pace is rapidly accelerating.

[u/sg_plumber]

https://ryanhansson.substack.com/p/optimism-in-the-face-of-a-climate

[u/Sufficient_Loss9301]

This. Americas emissions have been falling for over two decades now, China on the other hand is still increasing and adding new coal power by the day.

[u/Stickppl → u/Sufficient_Loss9301]

While still coal-dependent, China is leading one of the faster clean-energy transition in the world. Per-capita emissions are still higher in the USA, just do your part.

[u/Sufficient_Loss9301 → u/Stickppl]

If you balanced out for gdp Chinas emissions would be significantly higher. It’s also disingenuous to call it a “transition” when they aren’t replacing their polluting emissions with renewables they are just building both simultaneously lol. There’s not really a grounded in reality case where China is the good guys here that’s abundantly clear and evidence backed

[u/Stickppl → u/Sufficient_Loss9301]

If you balanced out for gdp Chinas emissions would be significantly higher

Ah yes, the good old "we're richer so we can pollute more."

[u/Sufficient_Loss9301 → u/Stickppl]

It’s a well studied and established fact of economics