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Billionaires Spew More CO2 Pollution in 90 Minutes than Average Person in a Lifetime
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Why the "Western" in media here? Did "Eastern" media promote the opposite?
The east, specifically China, is taking concrete action to make the necessary structural changes instead of using the media to manipulate public opinion. As a result, emissions in China have now entered a structural decline, China dominates renewables such as wind and solar with China having added more solar capacity in 2023 alone than the US has in its entire history, and continues rapidly expanding its nuclear capacity. This clean energy infrastructure is now being exported to the Global South as well. That's what real tangible action looks like.
Have those emissions results been verified by an independent third party?
I agree that at least on paper China is taking much stronger action than many other countries.
The analysis was done by an independent third party:
Furthermore, I'm not sure what basis there is for being skeptical here. It's universally acknowledged that China has created massive renewable infrastructure, and it follows that as clean energy production increases the emissions would fall.