Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 8 hours agoIt seems like China is putting a lot of efforts into becoming environmentally cleaner in the last few years though. I’m hoping that they’ve finally realized that pollution is bad.
ZMoney@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
There’s something called an environmental Kuznets curve that suggests that a population will sacrifice environmental health to industrial degradation in favor of per capita income up to a point, after which they are affluent enough to care, and after this environmental health improves. China seems to be at the inflection point. Image
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
They were at the inflection point back in 2008. They’ve been full tilt towards the improvement side of the curve for nearly two decades.