But don’t make the mistake of thinking this transformation is driven by a moral obligation to act on climate change. China’s reasons for this are less about arresting rising temperatures than its desire to stop relying on imported fossil fuels and to fix the pollution caused by them.
China isn’t doing this to limit emissions, they’re doing this to limit air pollution.
China isn’t doing good things, they’re undoing bad things
China isn’t, China is
TLDR: But at what cost???
The authoritarian regime put the heft of the state behind clean technologies at a scale and pace difficult to imagine in most democracies.
Still think China is good, tankies?
We’ll cross 2 degrees before 2030 but sure, “could” stop the fossil fuel age my ass because of course there is just a small(not realy) chance no it wont actualy and this is just another shitty China bad article because renewables are bad actualy if it means someone else is doing more(but not nearly enough).
I mean even if we pass 2c by 2030, it’s obviously still worth moving energy production off fossil fuels. The climate crisis isn’t a binary thing where once we pass a certain temperature threshold the world suddenly ends. What’s going to be happening in practice is that we’ll see a higher rate of more powerful natural disasters like hurricanes, droughts, and floods happening. There is of course a chance that we might hit some tipping points that result in run away processes beyond our control, but we don’t really know when that would happen at the moment.
Also worth noting that if western economies suffer another crisis, which appears to be looming, then the consumption in the west will drop dramatically. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is increasingly following Chinese model of developing based on renewables.
