China burns significantly more coal than the USA and Europe combined and has no environmental laws standing in the way of their nuclear power plants.

Imagine a world where people don't care about labeling new things as "regressive" or "anti-environmental"

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ahhhhnoooo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

China's coal use is shrinking recently, and their solar investment is in the hundreds of GW annually.

Don't look at where the ball is, look at where the ball is going.

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j16sdiz 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

China is doing that because they are profitable, not because they care about the environment. Why would they care the coal use?

	▲	dmix 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Having lots of cheap energy is always boosts industry and reduces cost of living for everyone. The way China accomplished that was by investing heavily in every sort of energy and building large scale infrastructure, instead of adding roadblocks at every stage.

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budududuroiu 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> China burns significantly more coal than the USA and Europe combined

Which is expected when both Europe and the US outsourced most manufacturing to China. It's actually surprising China is so low given they're literally the factory of the world