☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 10 months agoNew satellite images catch world’s worst polluters red-handed: ‘Now we really know exactly where it’s coming from’: Turkmenistan, India, Russia, Australia, and United States.news.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down12cross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.ml
arrow-up156arrow-down1external-linkNew satellite images catch world’s worst polluters red-handed: ‘Now we really know exactly where it’s coming from’: Turkmenistan, India, Russia, Australia, and United States.news.yahoo.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.ml
minus-squareRom [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 months agoChina, in 2023 alone, installed more solar capacity than the US has ever done in its entire history.
minus-squareOneser@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoBut they also burnt significantly more coal than any other country… That doesn’t answer the question: IEA Coal Consumption And while the US is one of the highest per capita, it doesn’t read like a list of capitalist countries to communist countries. Russia isn’t too far off the top either. CO2 per capita Who knows, maybe that will change in the coming years.
China, in 2023 alone, installed more solar capacity than the US has ever done in its entire history.
But they also burnt significantly more coal than any other country… That doesn’t answer the question:
IEA Coal Consumption
And while the US is one of the highest per capita, it doesn’t read like a list of capitalist countries to communist countries. Russia isn’t too far off the top either.
CO2 per capita
Who knows, maybe that will change in the coming years.