update to this classic with some recent headlines
Do something, win.
Green energy is good, but I’m sceptical of China’s intentions these days. They seem to have a pretty aggressive stance towards other countries, as seen in their handling of the nine-dash line.
I just get the sense that China is less interested in helping the whole world, and more interested in subjugating the whole world.
If that means ending greenhouse gases emissions I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords
An easy solution to make renewable energy more acceptable by political and economic elites is to physically demolished the other energy infrastructure so that they will be left with no choice but to pivot towards renewables instead of big clumsy easy to hit power stations. Works like a charm but there’s a catch.
As a whole, we need to get better at physically demolishing the infrastructure of evil. Palestine Action showed us that direct actions like sabotage of factories is very effective at forcing changes. So effective that they got labeled terrorists for it.
In the end of the day the only thing that matters is how a bunch of old guys feel about the way that thing makes them look
I’m just thinking abt the environmental impacts in the local area if there are guerrilla attacks on oil rigs. It could damage ecosystems like the oil spill that happened 10-20 years ago
why go that far - how about the environmental impact of shelling the area with all sorts of munitions? Pretty much the entirety of russian-occupied territory since 2022 is rendered into a literal dead moonscape and even decades later (if this shit ever ends) a good chunk of that land will remain a red zone filled with all sorts of bad things.
For anyone that’s not twigged it yet
They’re already turning this into another culture war to ensure they can continue to enrich the establishment.
The petrochemical industry has a lot of money to burn on propaganda if it’s facing an existential threat.
Remember this when you read anything other than “we should be decarbonising as quickly as possible”
The best thing for everyone (in basically every possible way) except petrochemical shareholders is heavy investment in renewable technology and the ending of petrochemical subsidies.
I may not like many of what I know of China’s policies (genocide, suppression of free speech etc.), but this is one of the things they have done well.
The only genocide that’s being committed today is the one that’s happening in Gaza with the direct involvement of western regimes. Full stop.
genocide
Wasn’t there a pic of Xinjiang and Gaza being shared to show that this was western exaggeration and blame shifting?
what until you see how much more genocide & suppression the united states has inflicted upon the world. lol
¿por que no lo dos?
Both are terrible. But in the light of the absolute state of the world, China’s a much lesser evil.
That’s a laughing matter to you?
you have to laugh at the absurdity of the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to genocide & suppression; especially so when the american pot is SO MUCH blacker than the chinese kettle.
and laughing becomes a coping strategy when an overwhelming majority of americans and other westerners have swallowed so much propaganda that they willfully & sometimes violently remain ignorant of it.
You’re not seriously suggesting that china is any better. They are part of the system. They just recognized that selling solar pannels and stuff to othercountries is very profitable.
They just recognized that selling solar pannels and stuff to othercountries is very profitable.
If it was very profitable, countries and companies would be falling over each other to do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable_electricity_production
China is in first place with 32% of global renewable electricity production. They have built more solar capacity than the rest of the world has ever had installed in one year. No other countries are anywhere close to the green acceleration they have purposefully spearheaded for themselves and the world.
Your source also compares the renewalable percentage of overall electricity production, where China lands at roughly spot 100, placing it near Poland.
placing it near Poland
and well above the US, France and Japan
per capita consumption mix is probably a more useful comparison
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-source-stackedI’d really like to see a graph with per GDP energy consumption mix as well. Most of the countries with better mix than China have a fraction of the GDP.
“China bad”
They installed a shitload of it too though. They’re not just selling it.
It’s always business, irrelevant if you sell petrol or solar cells. But last is way better for the environment, while fossil fuel destroy it.
Not good, but still better. sadly
