And if people were generally smart, they would not need to even state that. But people are not and some idiots will sue United for things they essentially did to themselves. So this ban.

During this time China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Having visited, I can see that many of them enjoy a good standard of living. In fact some of the apartments and homes I was in are much, much nicer than the ones in the UK. They looked like something out of a catalogue. I could hardly believe that people were living there, with kids and pets no less.

While it's far from universal, it's still hundreds of millions of people. When it comes to quality of life, things like air pollution matter. EVs reduce that considerably. By adopting renewables we can have a better standard of living. It's not a loss, it's a huge gain.

You can slice it different ways. China is at over 4PW/year renewable generation, the US is around 1.1PW/year.

I think per capita emissions are the fairest way, but we should also look at how fast each country is installing renewables.

They will not tell you? If you are in the EU, you can try a GDPR data request. That one has 30 days to comply and real teeth. Employee names in there are already enough to make that request.

Yes, keep telling yourself that. Good luck, you are going to need it.

The "Magic battery!" crap is getting reeeeeeaaalllly old. As are the idiots that fall for it.

Yes. Sad as that is, this is very likely the only viable way forward.

While it is deeply troubling that the only capable leadership in this question seems to come from China, this is the best chance for human civilization to survive. The West has proven itself to be not capable enough (Europe) or completely incapable (the US). And time is running out fast.

Yes, this will give China power and influence it should not have. But there seem to be no alternatives left.

Remember all the whining about how we would have to go back to being an agrarian society and suffer a massive decline in living standards to get to net zero?

China is proving that isn't true. In fact, it's proving that all the fearmongering about net zero costing us too much is nonsense, and it's actually a huge economic opportunity. They can't make solar panels, wind turbines, EVs, batteries and all the other stuff fast enough to satisfy the huge demand. The energy produced is the cheapest available, which further boosts their manufacturing.

We do need to do a lot more. China needs to do a lot more. But you can't also expect people to accept poverty to get it, so the only way it will work is if we ramp up the transition to a better lifestyle and lower costs as quickly as possible.

What other fair measure is there? Unless you expect China to somehow reduce its population to US levels, per-capital is the only way to do it.

And let's not forget that a lot of those emissions are things made for American companies and sold to Americans.

Because China's population is 1.4 billion people.

What's more important is the rate of change. Every country goes along a curve where emissions increase, peak, and then drop. China was on the up slope as it industrialized, and is now starting on the down slope. The peak was far, far below where the US and Europe peaked per capita, the only reasonable measure unless you think their One Child policy was a good idea.

The rate at which China is installing renewables and storage is staggering. Just the newly installed renewable capacity from 2025 produced as much electrical energy as the whole of Germany consumed that year. Just the new stuff, and this year they are on track for it to be even more. They are adding more than a Germany sized amount of renewable generation to the grid, PER YEAR, and accelerating.

If Europe and the US were doing that too we would be in a much better position regarding climate change. It would doubtless be a huge boon for those economies as well.

Funny, you are just describing your own failure here. No, you cannot put effective security guardrails into an LLM. Its statistical properties make that impossible. Sure, you can make lower-impact problems less likely, but attackers are not users that get told to put glue on pizza in some rare cases. Attackers go for the rare cases and statistics is no defense.

But I see you are one of the completely brainwashed cultists anyways. And you have no clue how IT security actually works.

Just a hypocrite. Like, honestly, most "green" advocates.

China's per-capital emissions are falling now.

The US peaked around 21.5t in the 1970s. China peaked at around 14.5t in 2025.

I suppose it's possible China will grow again in future, but it's looking unlikely given the amount of renewable generation and storage they are installing. The war with Iran has helped that too.

There are issues with the quality of Nintendo's emulators too. They just aren't that good, and actually seem to have got worse over time as they are ported to new consoles.