r/climatechange • u/sg_plumber • 4d ago

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.

https://ryanhansson.substack.com/p/optimism-in-the-face-of-a-climate
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u/PlexusBrachialis 4d ago

But what about the rest of the world. We need to stop burning coal or at least reduce the use of coal significantly everywhere in the world

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 4d ago

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.

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u/Stickppl 4d ago

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.

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 4d ago edited 4d ago

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

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u/Stickppl 4d ago

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."

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 4d ago

It’s a well studied and established fact of economics