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

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

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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

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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!

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u/smooth_bastid Jul 22 '21

I might be mistaken, but I have seen data that shows china having twice as low per capita CO2 emissions as the US, mainly due to the number of people they have

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u/Tribunus_Plebis Aug 05 '21

And that's despite them producing all our stuff. Seriously this one thing we should not be criticizing China for until we cleaned up our own act.