• @HowMany@lemmy.ml
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    112 years ago

    Yay China. Say… isn’t this the same country that turns out 68% of the world’s air pollution?

    What have they done about that?

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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      242 years ago

      wow lemmy is full of liberals

      Ya think maybe producing most of the world’s shit has anything to do with that pollution, buddy? Like wow the west outsourced most of its manufacturing to China, no fucking shit it’s going to produce more pollution. What’s their per capita #s look like, frienderino?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      232 years ago

      They’ve done a lot about that, like becoming the global leader in pretty much every renewable sector as well as nuclear. Also, worth mentioning that smooth brained liberals have all their stuff produced in China. It’s absolute idiocy to bleat about pollution without considering where consumption is happening. Per capita energy usage in China is far lower than in the west.

    • @zerfuffle@lemmy.ml
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      122 years ago

      In terms of particulates? China’s really cleaned that up in recent years.

      But, well, China doesn’t have massive piles of natural gas it can burn instead of coal. Coal is notoriously dirty.

    • possibly a cat
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      72 years ago

      Funded right-wing USian politicians to use their xenophobic base to push reindustrialization, from the looks of it. The hot potato just keeps going around!

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      In 2021, China, the United States, the EU27, India, Russia and Japan remained the world’s largest CO2 emitters. Together they account for 49.2% of global population, 62.4% of global Gross Domestic Product, 66.4% of global fossil fuel consumption and 67.8% of global fossil CO2 emissions.

      Unless China annexed the US, the EU, India, Russia, and Japan and I just haven’t gotten the memo yet…

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