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China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.

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[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 56 points 9 months ago (53 children)

Good news for one of the planet's most polluting countries.

[–] Nesola@lemmy.world 86 points 9 months ago (34 children)

That is producing for the rest of the world and especially for the west. It’s hypocritical to blame china while buying stuff that had to be cheaper and cheaper.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You‘re right. We should move production to cleaner countries.

[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

Production will always have some waste and pollution. China has high pollution because we do a lot of production there. As I pointed out above, on both a per-capita and a per-production basis China pollutes less than many industrialized nations (US. Germany, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Taiwan) and many developing nations (Singapore, Malaysia).

Given current manufacturing data, moving production out of China to other countries would likely increase pollution.

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