China is on track to reach a fully renewable energy system by 2051, nearly a century earlier than the United States, according to a global study covering 150 countries.
I live in Taiwan and I’m one of the biggest Pooh bear critic on Lemmy.
A good amount of smog in Taiwan comes from China. The smog can sometimes be extremely thick that you could hardly see a few blocks away. We would regularly get warnings on our weather apps to stay indoors or close your windows.
In the past 2 years, I have seen our air quality improve significantly with this year being the best I have ever seen in Taiwan for at least a decade. The Taiwan government has also been improving its air quality, but with the recent closure of our nuclear plant and our crazy need to produce chips, it’s 2 steps back and 1 step forward.
I gotta give credit where credit is due. China has been improving its air quality and we notice it here in Taiwan.
Still, fuck Xi and his desire to take over Taiwan.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
These graphs is not how it works, progress (in China and other sane-ish parts of the world) will probably speed up in the near future and then slow down as we run out of low-hanging fruit. You can’t project the behavior of extremely complex systems like this. See also:
xkcd “Sustainable”
But yeah in general US is clearly getting left behind on things that will matter this century. Hopefully it won’t manage to drag the rest of us down with them.
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
A lot of countries are already quite far along. Norway, DRC, Uruguay, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Albania and a bunch of others are doing much better then China or the US. If you include nuclear also France and Sweden go pretty far. Also Brazil is at nearly 90%.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
How do they compare with China in terms of energy use per capita? China is the world’s factory, this level of industrial output requires a lot of energy.
eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
the US is not getting left behind, it’s intentionally staying behind because the ruling class believes it’ll weaken their grasp; it’s disappeared from the political discussion of the last decade or so because of that and very few seem to notice.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I meant it more as a statement of fact, “most of the world is leaving the US behind”. You are 100% correct on the “why”.
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable. Sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable sustainable.