- cross-posted to:
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- china@sopuli.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
- china@sopuli.xyz
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/55394990
- China’s annual emissions have risen by 8.8 billion metric tons since 2000, accounting for roughly 62% of the entire global increase.
- China’s national emissions are now about 2.5 times higher than the U.S., even though its per capita emissions remain lower.
- Despite record solar and wind installations, China still burns more than half the world’s coal, and coal-fired power is rising again.
China’s per capita emissions remain below those of the United States. The U.S. and Europe have contributed more cumulative carbon dioxide to the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. China has installed more wind and solar capacity than any other country.
All of those statements are true.
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But none of those facts erase the central point: China’s total carbon emissions have risen dramatically, and that rise has been the largest single contributor to the increase in global emissions this century.
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China’s annual emissions are now roughly two and a half times those of the United States. That is not a minor difference. It makes China the world’s largest annual emitter by a wide margin.
The trend is even more important. According to the Statistical Review of World Energy, global annual carbon dioxide emissions have risen by about 14 billion metric tons this century. China’s annual emissions have risen by about 8.8 billion metric tons over that same period. That means China accounts for roughly 62% of the global increase.
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The renewable energy point also needs nuance.
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China is not yet replacing fossil fuels fast enough to prevent emissions growth […] It is building renewables, but it is also responsible for over 50% of the world’s coal consumption. It is electrifying transportation, but it is also expanding industrial output. It is adding clean energy, but total energy demand has grown so quickly that renewables have not been able to fully offset fossil fuel growth.
That is the key point. The emissions outcome depends not only on how much renewable energy a country installs, but also on how fast total energy demand grows.
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Any serious climate discussion has to hold those facts at the same time.
If the question is cumulative responsibility, the U.S. and Europe carry a large burden. If the question is per capita emissions, the U.S. still looks bad. If the question is renewable deployment, China looks impressive.
But if the question is why annual global carbon dioxide emissions have risen so rapidly this century, China is the biggest part of the answer.
That is not a myth. It is what the data show.
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Come on, this is word bending propaganda.
so rapidly this century,
This century, because emission growth is declining, almost flattening out.
https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/china-co2-emissions/
Read the data in your own link: China’s emissions rose this century from less then 4 billion tons to more than 13 billions.
And this is only one part of the story. Read the article. Propaganda is what you are permanently doing.
Here you can see the countries and their contributions to climate change (hint: China, together with Russia, ranks among the worst).
China currently installs more renewable than coal or gas. So renewables have the higher pace. Coal is ahead, but will be caught.
Of course China had grown conventional energy consumption to be able to compete with the west. Now that they can, they push renewables. My guess is to be energy independent and not so much for nature, but for nature that doesn’t matter.
I think hiding the current pace in the two decade aggregate is misleading. As Europeans we have to ask why China can do it while we are half asleep and only do the bare minimum.
In 2024, China’s installed solar capacity rose 45.2% and wind capacity rose 18%. By the end of that year, China had 890 gigawatts of solar capacity and 520 gigawatts of wind capacity.
1410 GW, the increase should be 438 GW.
Not the same year, but the numbers should stay similar:
Last year, China installed almost 70 gigawatts of new coal power capacity more than it took off the grid.
Nevertheless, gas-fired power capacity could see faster growth in the 14th Five-Year Plan, likely adding 40 to 50 GW of new capacity by 2025. The buildout will boost the gas fleet to 140–150 GW, up 50 per cent from current levels,
Propaganda is what you are permanently doing.
This is a fucking insane thing to say for an account that exclusively posts anti-chinese propaganda.
I was curious and yeah, almost all of that guys comments are anti-china lol. I suppose if you have super tankies on here it’s only natural to have super anti-tankies.
What’s the difference between critique and propaganda tho? As any critique against China seems to warrant being called a bot and spreading propaganda on here.
Just the other day I said a lot of china’s water is not safe to drink and you shouldn’t drink tapwater in china and was immediately called a bot lol. Someone else posted 3 sources but since one source was from 2023 it was therefore outdated and we are guilty of spreading propaganda lol.