While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed switch to solar and wind power, China's renewables rollout is breaking all the records.
A bigger country has more industry.
Spain is bigger, has more industry and pollutes more than Portugal for example and it’s “normal” (as normal as destroying the environment is).
And pretending the end consumer doesn’t bare any responsibility is dishonest.
I’d also add that most manufacturing done in China is not for Chinese citizens but us, Europeans and Americans.
But it’s not mostly people who are doing most of the polluting, it’s industry. That has nothing to do with population size.
A bigger country has more industry. Spain is bigger, has more industry and pollutes more than Portugal for example and it’s “normal” (as normal as destroying the environment is). And pretending the end consumer doesn’t bare any responsibility is dishonest. I’d also add that most manufacturing done in China is not for Chinese citizens but us, Europeans and Americans.
China doesn’t have to allow that manufacturing.