Ok but so is everything else from everywhere else.

Fuck China, but also we don't get to offload the entire manufacturing, procurement and shipping of the whole world's economy to them and then pretend they're to blame for the pollution

Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a synthetic chemical that plays a critical role as an electrical insulator in high-voltage equipment. The gas is odorless, invisible, non-toxic and non-flammable. But it is also a climate killer, 24,300 times more effective at warming the planet than carbon dioxide on a pound-for-pound basis. Once released, sulfur hexafluoride remains in the atmosphere for 1,000 years.

Emissions come primarily from the electric power sector, where the gas is used in circuit breakers and other high-voltage equipment to prevent electricity from arcing. Nearly indestructible, SF6 serves as a critical backstop for any modern electric grid, ensuring that electricity flows only when and where it is needed. However, when electrical equipment in China reaches the end of its useful life, much of the gas is likely vented into the atmosphere.

Not saying this shouldn't be reported and addressed, but the headline makes it sound like China's electrical infrastructure is killing us all, when the situation is more like, China's electrical infrastructure could be much better without much extra cost.

The CO2 equivalent the article is talking about is less than the CO2 of emitted by cars in California alone.

It is probably enabling renewable energy consumption all over the world too, so is probably making up for those emissions by reducing CO2 consumption elsewhere.

So the headline makes it sound like China is cooking the planet with this stuff, but that's like calling out one person's fart and screaming that it's stinking up the shit factory.

We should try and do to SF6 what we did with CFCs. True, CFCs are still being released, but international regulations have been really effective in a massive reduction in general