Been reading through my usual posts and this thought popped up in my head. Did a bit of searching and now I’m curious what y’all’s analysis is on this. And how potentially the CCP will respond to climate related consequences in the coming decades since they are becoming an increasingly massive superpower and their actions will have global impacts for the rest of the world.
It’s worth noting that China would be incentivized to decarbonize even if climate change wasn’t happening, because it’s a lot harder for the US military to control the sun than the world’s oil supply.
I’m not super familiar with what their actual policies are wrt to climate change; apparently they’ve committed to going carbon neutral by 2060, which is late but also much more believable than the US’s plan to hit net 0 by 2050 (inasmuch as we have an actual plan on this front).
I read an editorial that was posted on here around the time the IRA was being passed where a government official was comparing China’s approach and progress on climate change to the US’s lackluster results on keeping its promises, but I haven’t been able to find it again. Maybe one of the resident clairvoyants can divine what I’m thinking about and dig up the link.
US military furiously taking notes from the Matrix
Who Shot Mr Buns style sun blocker over the Chinese mainland
Who Shot Mr Bao
but there’s still all the different materials required to make solar panels and batteries.
Almost all of which come from China or Russia. The US is nearly completely reliant on both for its own green energy demand.
China is the world’s 3rd largest producer of lithium. I’m pretty sure the entire supply chain can be found within China.