@urlyman @greenpeace

This is what irks me about people celebrating China as some great environmental hero simply because they see the economic opportunity in solar/wind.

Their annual emissions are still a verticle line outpacing even the US, and the reason companies go to China is because of the lax environmental regulations compared to their own countries.

So instead of doing the responsible thing and prioritizing cleaner manufacturing, they choose their geopolitical ambitions.

@urlyman @greenpeace

sure, but if we MUST use fossils, on the whole, it is better to burn fossils to create things that can make useful energy again and again

rather than burning it just for its useful energy that we can never get back.

i think they've made a solar panel recycling plant that was entirely solar powered, so pretty soon we won't even need fossils to make solar panels, but rather we can simply recycle the ones we already have.

i think @pluralistic made a blog post about this.