acebandaged t1_ja9lftd wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:14 PM

Reply to comment by CluelessTurtle99 in China approves biggest expansion in new coal power plants since 2015, report finds | China by cosmic_fetus

I mean, with that approach there are 15 other countries with higher per cap emissions. This shouldn't be a whatabout issue, this should be a "yes, what china's doing sucks and should stop" issue.

US emissions are also a problem, yes. Now, back to China, which is the topic at hand.

akkelerate t1_ja9xtfq wrote on February 27, 2023 at 10:34 PM

Well that’s easy. Divide China into 50 countries. Now none of them are anywhere near as polluting. Problem solved.

acebandaged t1_jaaj5t5 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 1:04 AM

I know everyone says lots of smaller countries are much worse than one big one, but there's definitely a population between 1.5bn and 1 that's more stable than 1.5bn...the point where the power those small nations hold is too small for their inherent instability to matter.

Montenegro isn't going around picking on other nations, while China is happily spying and murdering and threatening and generally having an overall negative impact on the world.

ELVEVERX t1_jaanukj wrote on February 28, 2023 at 1:39 AM

>while China is happily spying and murdering and threatening and generally having an overall negative impact on the world.

I mean they do less of that shit than the US.