• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    7 months ago

    Isn’t China doing better than the rest of the world in steering to renewables (which have their own issues)? The real problem isn’t what we’re burning, it’s the demand. It keeps going up, so even advances in better energy sources dwindle in their growth compared to the total need. But reducing demand is antithesis to a good economy, so we aren’t even considering that. Must tech out of this! (Not working so far)

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      China is the only major country still building new coal power. The UK, meanwhile, closed its last coal plant in 2024.

      The US needs to give up on drill-baby-drill. Germany needs to stop closing perfectly functional nuclear plants. The US especially needs to get out of car-based infrastructure, though even Europe isn’t ideal.