| ▲ | drstewart 2 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
China seems to be winning in brightest minds by what metric? >And lead in solar, and robots. And new coal, don't forget about that. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Sweepi 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
China reduced the CO2/kWh of electricity by 33% in the last 20 years, while increasing output by 320%. The U.S. reduced it by 37%, while increasing output by ... 12%. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?tab=line&... Also talking into considering the insane wealth disparity and the current rate of change, "coal" is just ragebait. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?tab=line&... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tialaramex an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> And new coal, don't forget about that. For the last full year where we have data (2025), China made slightly less electricity from coal than the one before. Unlike Trump, China's authoritarian leadership seem to have their eye on the ball, China is on Earth so if we trash Earth's climate that's China's climate too. But also, more so than the gas which powers so much of Europe and America's electricity generators, coal is obviously poison, even the unburned coal looks like a movie prop to signify "Mysterious evil" The toxic waste from a gas power plant is a transparent gas that readily mixes with the atmosphere. Does it cause problems? Yes. But compared to "And here's a mountain of radioactive and highly toxic coal ash that's produced by our coal power plant" it's rather subtle. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | FrustratedMonky 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Do your own research. There are metrics. I'm done explaining to Republicans what they could just as easily go read in a book themselves. | |||||||||||||||||
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