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1. Despite the "percent talk" China is the world's largest emitter of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 02:28 PM
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They have also built more than 50 nuclear plants in the last 20 years, and still they are the world's largest emitter of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide.

No matter how much solar junk they are produce, the solar industry, at a cost of trillions of dollars has demonstrated conclusively that it is useless to address the collapse of the planetary atmosphere.

The sun is widely reported to be unreliable as a result of disappearing from the sky, on average, 12 hours a day.

It is, I note, also too late for nuclear energy to do what it might have done; but as a manufacturing and engineering powerhouse, a scientific powerhouse, China has the best shot and doing what can be done.

It would be useful if they stopped squandering resources and land and money on solar junk though. They know how to build nuclear reactors. Solar energy is not sustainable, not clean, and is wholly dependent on access to dangerous fossil fuels.

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