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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, there is an obvious solution...JUST MAKE CLEAN ENERGY AND GREEN SOLUTIONS IN YOUR COUNTRY TOO!

[–] PizzasDontWearCapes 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's what the article is saying should be done by other countries

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no! Not investing in clean energy! Everyone else has been sitting on their ass while China actually tries to do something and that's seen as a bad thing?

China is under no obligation to invest in clean energy: as a developing nation, the costs of climate change are going to be offset by the benefits of electrification and industralization pulling people out of poverty. The opposite is true in developed countries: it's increasingly difficult to improve the lives of people in developed countries, so the marginal benefit of more fossil fuels consumption is offset by the costs of climate change. Given that that's true, what the fuck is the developed Western world doing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article doesn't say it's bad that China has invested in it, just that the near-monopoly is risky for the rest of the world. The obvious conclusion is that we need more investment elsewhere, not less in China

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The result of this (as we see in Europe) is that Europe would rather block Chinese EVs than properly invest in domestic EV production. What makes you think it'll be different here?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Obviously everyone has just gone off the headline as all the article really talks about is the danger of one supplier having 75% of all the product.

It’s calling for greater internal investment, not criticising China for making it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

How dare China fulfill its climate commitments