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>Instead they ban plastic straws while the Chinese burn another million tons of coal.

The chinese quite literally have greener energy than germany at the moment and are building the shit that you buy off of amazon. China is the only reason the current solar push is as successful as it is. Tame your sinophobia.

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Germany has cleaner electricity than China (and the USA) you can directly compare by calculating CO2 per kWh:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?tab=line&...

There's still complications e.g if the "dirty" electricity is being used to power an EV or a heat pump then it's reducing GHG compared with directly fossil fueled alternatives.


According to this, Germany gets 84% of its energy from fossil fuels, and China 87%: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-mix?source=fossil_...

The trend is interesting too: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-mix?tab=line&count...

> nd are building the shit that you buy off of amazon.

So not buying Chinese made stuff on Amazon would help.




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