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[–] 27 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Unfortunately, depending on the jetstream, we still get a lot of their pollution blowing over here to Korea. I think it is mostly from coal power plants on the coast. Anecdotally, the effect of EVs on the air there does feel like it has lessened the amount of smog that blows over to Korea, in the spring especially. Glad to hear they are making progress. Last time I was in Beijing the air was unbearably smoky (2011).

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, seems like these days it's mostly good, then every once in a while you get some massive smog bank blowing in. Definitely an (anecdotal) improvement over even just a few years ago when it was almost constantly smoggy in Korea. Korea is also not entirely innocent of coal dependency itself.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately despite leading on EVs, renewables and nuclear power deployment, China is also expanding coal. So their greenhouse gas emissions are still rising.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I was under the impression that they reached peak CO2 emissions and have been flat or falling for the past year or so

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly I thought so too, but I quickly looked it up before commenting, and at least according to Our World in Data it's actually up both per capita and in absolute terms.

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