China is at least progressing nicely. While America regresses.

China is doing an amazing job on the renewables front no doubt

But they are also doing a fantastic job installing new coal power plants

A “resurgence” in construction of new coal-fired power plants in China is “undermining the country’s clean-energy progress”, says a new joint report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Global Energy Monitor (GEM).

https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-power-plants-reached-10-year-high-in-2024/

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-just-15-countries-account-for-98-of-new-coal-power-development/

This is something they are choosing to do willingly, knowing they are the highest polluting country in the world by far

I also think the American regress is overstated

We are still seeing records broken on the regular: https://reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteries-reach-stunning-new-peak-of-44-pct-of-evening-demand-in-worlds-fourth-biggest-economy/

A big part of this is because right wing people think renewables are economically bad and ideologically motivated, whereas in reality they are economically sound and the right wingers are the ones who are driven by ideology

You one of those what if’ers, eh?

The opposite, I live in reality, remember the planet doesn't care about per capita, only actual output ;)

because a country is made up of people and governments, who have different priorities and determine how best to respond to the climate change threat

it’s not really arbitrary, there is a very clear difference between the goals of the uk who shut all their coal power plants, germany who shut all their nuclear power plants and china who are meth head addicted to building as many coal power plants as they can despite being already no.1 in co2 emissions by a long shot