China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.

  • Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    The average consumer doesn’t actually have a choice in the matter. Unless you are wealthy enough to purchase only local artisan made goods near everything you can afford is made in China or made in China adjacent.

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      8 months ago

      That’s not really the point. The point is their emissions will be higher because they’re producing all the stuff everyone else purchases. The production is what creates pollution. If they stopped producing then other countries would and they would increase their pollution.

      It’s not saying don’t buy products from China. It’s saying China polluted because things are bought from them. The pollution would be wherever production is taking place.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      You could simply not purchase as much crap. Half of the factories that supply the West’s goods would go out of business if people stopped buying new phones and shitty plastics every full moon.

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        8 months ago

        Oh no, that’s the freedom way. Gods forbid, they’d be living like the bland Soviet blocks otherwise.

    • where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Then you cannot complain about corporations moving jobs overseas. Clearly was the only way for the society to survive.