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Originally Posted by whatnext
So you are denying the amount of coal plants being built by China because of the source?
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No. And don't know why you think that.
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Originally Posted by whatnext
Who cares about their absolute size? They're still building a huge amount of polluting coalfired power plants, well in excess of any other nation.
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Per capita figures are very much relevant in negotiations. Attacking them solely for having a large aggregate number is basically attacking them solely for having a large population. Should be obvious why they'll turn around and just dismiss any such argument.
As for building coal plants. It's not just them.
Look at how much the rest of Asia is building too. They really don't have a choice, other than living in poverty though, once
the developed world welched on the pledge to provide $100B in annual financing for alternative energy financing made in Copenhagen in 2009.
In any event, I go back to the original question I asked. Conservatives are usually extremely excited to push natural gas as a transition to fuel to get many of these countries off coal. They are willing to put taxpayer dollars towards propaganda to that effect. The same folks are also China hawks, who want to decouple from China economically, and dramatically ramp up geostrategic competition with China. So again, I ask, why exactly would China put their energy security in our hands? Ditto, for India, Indonesia, etc.