China’s political elites are by no measure saints. Many human rights abuses suggest they are no global outliers when it comes to double standards. However the political elites in China do seem unique in their ability to grasp the urgency and severity of the risks posed by our changing climate.

Indeed. And China’s emissions per capita might drop by 50% over the next 3 years using 2023-2024 trend. While the U.S. will likely remain broadly flat.

Yes - that’s definitely correct.

We should start naming hurricanes after fossil fuel companies.

That’s a false narrative. The USA remains an extreme emitter of fossil fuels. The Biden presidency is the most extreme emitter of fossil fuel emissions in U.S. history.

Most “western” economies are arresting climate protestors and INCREASING investments and subsidies of fossil fuel burning.

The world has a large number of economies. The only large economy taking urgent and serious action is China. No other major economy seems to be taking the urgency and the severity seriously.

If publication yesterday by @desmog.bsky.socialwww.irishtimes.com/environment/...

If the unholy alliance of farm bodies and industry is successful in its lobbying, the price will be our rivers and lakes

When a tribunal of inquiry is eventually set up, hopefully it will ask the right questions this time

Hope so!

China’s renewable energy investments is more than the rest of the world combined. China is only 1.4 billion people. The rest of the world is 6.7 billion people, and yet China invests more in renewable energy than the entire rest of the world.