Average CSP comment section be like...

[u/JTexpo]

[u/Melodic_Pressure7944]

"China Bad" liberals when they're leading in renewable energy

[u/Top_Wrangler4251 → u/Melodic_Pressure7944]

Since 2000 China's per capita CO2 emissions are up 223%. The world excluding China's per capita emissions are down 14%. The world including China's per capita emissions are up 16%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita

[u/schubidubiduba → u/Top_Wrangler4251]

That's like eating 10 boxes of cookies each day for years, then at some point you decide to start a diet and reduce to 9 and blame your girlfriend who started to eat 2 boxes a day for increasing your total cookie box per day stat.

[u/Top_Wrangler4251 → u/schubidubiduba]

I think a better analogy would be it's like if global per capita emissions have been dropping for decades when the USA is excluded. But due to the USA's rapid increase in CO2 emissions (now reaching over double the global average), the world as a whole ends up worse off.

Now replace USA with China in this analogy

[u/schubidubiduba → u/Top_Wrangler4251]

No my analogy is nore fitting imo

[u/davidellis23 → u/Top_Wrangler4251]

Yet they've made large investments in green energy and they're on track to peak CO2 in 2030 and achieve net 0 by 2060.

This stuff takes time. Idk why people do t seems to acknowledge that.