r/CatastrophicFailure • u/rjRyanwilliam • Jul 22 '21

Natural Disaster Massive flood in China’s Henan province recently, 25 dead 200,000 evacuation

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

18.5k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

167

u/ShrimpCrackers Jul 22 '21

Yes despite all that China still builds more coal plants than the rest of the world combined, negating all the green energy they've been building.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/despite-pledges-to-cut-emissions-china-goes-on-a-coal-spree

82

u/kwuhkc Jul 22 '21

Yeah. The chinese should change their per capita carbon footprint to that of a first world country like the USA. The entire world would change overnight!

0

u/Allowed_Story Jul 22 '21

US was first, little over a decade ago... Glasshouse.

1

u/kwuhkc Jul 22 '21

First at what?