Your daily reminder that despite producing most of the world's goods, China isn't even near the top generator of CO2 per capita, sitting at around half that of the US.

Meanwhile, China is building not one, two or three, but twenty one. Yes 21! New nuclear reactors.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/30/how-china-became-king-of-new-nuclear-power-how-us-could-catch-up.html

[–] Fazoo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

China literally produces almost 30% of annual CO2 emissions. Maybe you are using the CCPs data, in which they lied for years that they were beating expectations in reduction, when the reality was they had increased emissions.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You don't understand what per capita means do you?

They produce around 30% of the global manufacturing output, so that's basically one to one. Yet they represent 15% of the world population, meaning half of their production is for the benefit of others.

How many nuclear plants is the US building right now already?

[–] Fazoo@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago

I do, and I know that as they continue to emit more that per Capita argument means less and less. They are emitting more each year, and I have no doubt they will cut corners with their reactors. Why? Because they cut corners everywhere else while lieing to your face. That's what made their Fukushima complaints so hilarious.

The US doesn't build enough of them. Wish they would and I continue to argue for more. Lemmy alone is filled with anti-nuke imbeciles thinking they can achieve the same results with solar.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Ah, because using Western data that claims natural gas emissions are dominated by burning rather than methane leakage are...SO much more reliable.

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