Two wrongs don’t make a right.

China is at least trying to increase green emissions, but still a massive polluter.

The US is a massive polluter and doubling down.

well if you want hard numbers China produces about 1100GW of energy from coal yearly and the US is sitting at 260GW. so a 7% increase on 260 still deserves what the article says about not coming anywhere near China, even per capita. We would love to see US numbers trending the other direction but the current administration can't be bothered to interrupt its money grab. China has been holding steady in recent years, which is an accomplishment, but China still uses more coal than the rest of the world combined.

Damn you China apologists are already out full force. Impressive!

But we burn carbon! How can we have carbon if we burn carbon, smarty-pants?

Smiling Garak: Especially the clean coal.

Clean from what?

Indeed

he just did. no more emissions regulations on power plants. welcome back to 1965.

legalize shooting coal mine shareholders

Leaving aside the importance of per capita, much of China's emissions is western emissions in a trench coat. And I'm not saying that as a China glazer.

It’s says rise in the headline. Idk what your comment is supposed to be except for ‘china bad’ whataboutism.

The issue is that an increase in US coal consumption exists solely to placate Appalachians that can't imagine a future beyond what Grandpappy did.

And it's like, Appalachians do, in my opinion, fit the definition of "marginalized group," but at the same time the only way of advancement that they accept is pretending the world can or should be like it was before the rust belt was the rust belt, which Republicans are happy to give them.

Since when are endless coups, regime changes, and a 4 generations long nonstop bombing campaign a “grey” war?

Government and the rich, not "Americans". Americans are just as pissed.

As an American, I have been screaming basically this to anyone who will listen for my entire adult life.

But what does the amount of CO2 by China or any other country matter for the increase in CO2 by the U.S.? Yes China has more overall but that's not an excuse for us to start emitting more, you know?

It's also the biggest country in the world by population, by far. That's not really indicative of anything. China is also decarbonizing at an absolutely incredible rate, whereas the US are basically doing everything they can to increase their emissions.

thanks. I personally do not see the point of what we are doing if we are linking to outside things alone. Its good to have sources but the convo should start here. Right now you have given me the only information I have because im not going to that other website. I would only do so to verify what is put in the federation.

Which doesn't contradict the headline in any way.

Is that overall, per capita, per unit GDP, per WonTon served, or...?

Is power generation not considered technology?