But we won't have the incredible infrastructure that China has built for their people, like Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge. Hell, seems like the only time we get a new, important infrastructure project here in the US it's because a tanker crashed into a bridge or we waited too long to modernize something and it collapsed.

And that feels like a massive theft from the next generations, at least to me.

China is the world's factory. They produce the goods consumed by every other country on these charts.

The question becomes: given a country's usage of fossil fuels, what do they have to show for it? Western nations burn coal to run LLMs; China is burning coal to build eliminate poverty and produce 30% of the entire world's goods.

Also keep in mind, energy usage has a history. Its not fair to take a snapshot of 2026's energy splits and condemn China, given how western nations just spent the last 200 years destroying the planet.

Thank you for the info.

That's something that has always struck me as a bit odd with US political caricatures, everything is labeled so there's no chance for reflection or interpretation. Basically soyjack vs Chad of the cartoonist world.

USbot doesn't have a label but ChinaBot does, I think the artist wasn't confident people would recognize the latter's flag

Yeah, the symbolism is shoehorned, and the hills of green behind them should be a smoking ruin with the wailing & dying droves as far as the eye can see, ngl. 🥲

Meanwhile china is going all in on coal, and specifically coal to oil conversion.

They are in the short-term, yes.

That'll happen when the US president literally blows up the global energy supply. Countries rely on what's at hand out of necessity. Just ask Venezuela.

Meanwhile china is going all in on coal

A 6 month - 1 year plan doesn't mean much when there's multiple 5-10 year plans set fully in on nuclear and renewables.