• fossilesque@mander.xyz
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    People with more money than god would rather spend more time and money defending the use of a dead technology than ensuring another few generations of their descendents multiply their wealth into the sun by investing two cents into literally just modern technology, more at 11.

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    Once China starts shutting down its old steel mills and coal plants, their emissions should drop drastically. That’s when USA will be left as the number 1 polluter in the world.

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      US is already #1 polluter per capita. China pollutes twice as much as US, but has over 4 times the population. Its quite incredible how little China pollutes already (considering how much or the world’s goods they make). But obviously, I’m all for every country polluting less.

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        Factor in a lot of that pollution is because they are the wests factory and we would be polluting more.

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        In recent decades, China has invested heavily on building renewable energy infrastructure. I think it’s a matter of time until they start deploying arch furnaces, and grid energy storage. If/when that happens, Chinese emissions could be much lower than many other countries, no matter how you measure it.

  • lai, a supersonic warrior@piefed.social
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    lol usa. if i were Führer like Trump over there, i would extemp all the ai stuff and supporting industries to be extemp. nit some stupid useless gas trucks or cars or consumer shit

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    US moves to continue to eliminate conditions that allow humans to breathe & thrive on Planet Earth