Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7

• surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Only because the US & Europe consider their militaries to be exempt. The US military is one of the worst mass polluters in the planet.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re saying china woul also be going down if you also exempted their military?

    Errrr, no!

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    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I wasn’t implying the inverse. But no, China does not have the same massive military as the US, nor is it as spread across the globe.

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      • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        1. Where in the world it is deployed doesn’t matter. It would still be US emissions.
        2. You were saying it wasn’t an apples to apples comparison. How we correct the two sides of the equation shouldn’t really matter.
        3. I’m going to need evidence that the our world in data plots don’t include the US military anyway.
        4. The vast majority of global CO2 emissions are coal. I’m not aware of coal power being used much in the military.

        In the next year or two China will take second place for total historic CO2 emissions, taking that place over from Europe. It’s emissions per capital overtook Europe several years ago and it has 6x the people. If the rest of the world hits zero tomorrow, Chinas emissions are still too high.

        globalcarbonbudget.org/download/1479/?tmstv=17328…

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