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[-] JoJo@social.fossware.space 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's difficult to get China and India off coal because they're doing most of the world's manufacturing and some processes are currently impossible without it. But 'we' exported manufacturing to Asia and 'we' buy the products the coal is used for. 'We' don't get to wriggle out of responsibility by pretending that a couple of low and middle income countries are somehow responsible for 'our' excessive consumption.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we can 100% blame 'outsourcing to China' for that fuckup. Actually, we can kinda blame greedy shareholders.

[-] JoJo@social.fossware.space 8 points 1 year ago

What fuck up? If we were doing our own manufacturing, we'd be using the coal instead. We just wouldn't be able to blame other countries for our consumption.

[-] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They're also far more "off coal" already than most of the west, and their renewable generation is growing far faster than the coal.

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