China's Contradiction: World's Biggest Clean Energy Producer And Biggest Polluter? | Insight

There is no contradiction once you take into account their population size. The only fair way to measure carbon pollution is by per capita measurement. By that measure, China only pollutes half as much as the U.S. The real question is why western countries are such big polluters.

1. China is the biggest polluter? China's emission per capita is only a half the emission in western countries. You are saying Chinese don't deserve to use the same amount of energy as westerners? 2. The western countries are the biggest polluter if we count from 200 years ago! The pollution of the earth is not done in one day, or one month or one decade. It's the accumulation of hundreds of years, especially after the industrial revolution in the western world. They had polluted the air for hundreds of years, and made themselves rich, and now when poor countries want to develop too, they accuse you of pollution. 3. The rich western countries moved all of their most polluted factories to poor countries to make products for them to consume, and then they come back to accuse you of pollution. How hypocritical is that!

China with it's 1.45B people is like a family of 15 persons, while the US only 1/5 of China's population (a family of 3 persons). Aside from it's role providing the world's need of products that also produce waste/pollution, a family of 15 who eats 3 times a day will produce more waste than a family of 3 persons, that is unavoidable. In reality the family of 3 (the US) produces waste almost half of the family of 15(China) and demanding that the family of 15 to eat only once a day in order to reduce it's waste/pollution while the family of 3 can keep eating 6 times a day.

China will not compare with anyone. China is just doing what they think is right. Other people's views and criticisms are just a little noise.🤗

If all the products that China exports to the US were made in the US, the carbon footprint of those products would double.

If western people uphold every human on earth has equal rights. pollution emission should be measured by per capital as this is the right way to measure.

CO2 Emissions per Capita (2022) - Canada 15.22 tons - Australia 15.12 tons - United states 14.44 tons - S.korea 12.26 tons - China 8.85 tons - Japan 8.61 tons

What contradiction? China and the United States released 11.4 and 5.1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2022 respectively. But on a per capita basis, the Americans accounted for 1.8 times more greenhouse gas than their Chinese counterparts. Another takeaway is that, measured in dollar terms, China accounts for almost 30% of the world manufacturing outputs, or twice as much as that produced by the U.S. And that is achieved on the back of per capita energy consumption being less than half that of the U.S. Had China not moved towards green and efficient use of energy, what do you think China’s greenhouse gas emission will be like in order to produce 30% of the manufactured goods for the world?

The Western nations need to do more first. We need to talk about these things in per capita terms. To just say China is the biggest emmitter and end there is dishonest in my books

China's total installed capacity of solar electric power reached 414GW, accounting for 45% of the world's installed capacity. The cumulative installed capacity of wind power accounts for 39.2% of the world's total. I am very Confident that China will fulfill our promise, to be Cabon neutral by 2060. We have talented people and strong govenment to meet the target.

世界上只有中国等少数几个国家在进行真正意义上的减碳行动。欧美提出的减碳方案只要想利用减碳来打压发展中国家。没错，中国是世界上碳排放最多的国家，但中国同时也是世界的工厂，生产的东西供应了全球，最多的就是西方，是他们消费了这些污染产出来的产品。而且中国有世界上最多的人口，但人均排放却只有美国的1/4，难道只能美国人可以人均一辆车，却不能让中国二人均一台车吗？这是何其荒唐的。中国人为了治理环境，已经持续几十年对沙漠进行了植树造林运动，并且取得巨大成功。中国对于绿色能源的重视，视频中已经做了详细的介绍。今天的中国已经遍布风力发电机，几乎每座山上都有风力机组，在阳光充足的地方也布置了大量的光伏面板。中国在前几年已经进行了全国大范围的煤改天然气项目，使用更加环保的天然气来代替煤。同时中国也大范围的使用电动汽车，所有公交线路都换成了电动公交车。那么西方这些年在环保上又做了什么呢？喊喊口号？环保少女？为中国光伏产品加税？为中国的电动汽车出口加税？

US is the biggest polluter overall. This sort of article should be responsible for giving the right information. China is just the biggest annual emission in recent years. But it will take another 10 years just to match the carbon emission US put in the air in the past. And China is the fastest to clean up it carbon emission as compare to both the UK and US after their industrialization. Yet US is still number 2 in carbon emission despite not doing any manufacturing while China is the world factory with 4 times the population. Unless you consider the people in China are not human, China emission per capita is way below most industrialized countries including US, Singapore, Israel, Canada, Japan and ranked 40th less per capita than even Falkland. And the number don't even include the carbon emission by US military bases all over the world.

You have to account for China huge population size and fast economic growth. A great way for the world to solve climate change is to follow China's footsteps in producing more clean energy. Don't let propaganda blind our eyes to how beneficial China's cheaply produced solar panels and wind turbines are to our planet.

Why don’t you report on another amazing Chinese development - a nuclear reactor using Thorium not Uranium, also using molten salts, does not need water for cooling, so they built it in Gobi desert, If they go into factory production for worldwide sales, could be fantastic for world energy needs. China already leads world in Thorium. So proud of China

Good job China big respect keep it going 👌👌👍👍✊✊🇨🇳

Everybody knows the US with its 850 military bases around the world and daily Navy patrolling seas in other countries' doorsteps, cause the most pollution on the planet, yet no one dares to talk about it, still scared of the Anglos? Wtf is up with Singapore's state media anyway? Gradually becoming an Anglo mouthpiece in Asia LOL...pity.

China has made great efforts to reduce emissions, which is second to none. But good things take time. So why does the CNA question China, while paying no attention to countries like the United States and Australia that produce less and emit more?

China produces goods to meet the needs of wester customers. To reduce the pollution once and for all, we have to call for the west countries to reduce their consumption.

Just 34 years from DXP's southern tour where after which he opened up in earnest ... 34 years to become a force ... that's an unprecedented achievement in any language ... only the English language has no words for it ... proud of China

We need to be more mindful of the environment and fight for our green spaces before it is too late. In Tan’s words: “The climate crisis is real and urgent, and conserving forests is an important part of tackling this crisis. We must continue to advocate for the conservation of our important green spaces in Singapore.”