Why should I care about Climate Change while China has 43 New Coal Fired Power Stations in the works

It's never too late to do the right thing? But seriously when the effects of climate change intensifies exponentially, you are better off have a diverse energy infrastructure than being dependant on fossil fuels. It will effect supply and extraction also. At some point we will reach peak climate disaster and it would be nice for whoever is left to be able to turn a light bulb on.

All these DEALS , MR PRICE and any kids toy store should have all that cheap China plastic suite taxed out of existence. The amount of **** that'd gets sold out of those stores is unbelievable couple that with unnecessary food packaging and you can see why the world's environment is fooked and the oceans are already fooked. Humans are a plaque on this planet and until we are extint the world will never recover.

We're fcuked either way.

We're all too selfish and want someone else to make the changes (which won't be enough anyway)

OP; there is no reason beyond juvenile conscience that you should care. Itll make no difference either way.

Quick China is burning the candle! Let's burn the candle at all ends

No it's a wild move and I'd love to unpack it but it's no reason to start buying Hummers and building new coal plants.

@Danzy - "Outside of North America and Europe no one is interested in climate change or mitigation of carbon."

This is simply not true. While China building new coal fired power plants is bad news, it disregards the fact that China adds more hydro, more solar PV and more wind to the grid every year than the rest of the world combined.

@Danzy - "All that matters about carbon in this topic is the volume produced."

That's a very simplistic view. China makes most of the stuff the rest of the world uses. Of course they will have a load of emissions. This is only going to increase as soon enough they will also make most of the world's cars, vans, buses and trucks (all electric). They are actively working to mitigate it though by deploying as much renewables as they possibly (economically) can. I bet they will be emissions neutral before many western countries are.

Ah yes, dirty China. The world's largest investor in renewable technology. Over 25% energy from renewables.

For a country that has well over 1 billion people. I think the sense of scale is lost on people in Ireland. In terms of renewable energy and pro-renewable strategies and incentives, China is leading the world.

This is the country who displaced 1.3million people to build the world's largest hydro electric dam. Compared to Ireland where a few objections from NIMBYs can kill a project.

There's very few countries on the planet with the political will and resources of China. I've no doubt they'll outpace the western world when it comes to carbon neutrality.

I would advise people to read up on China before resorting to lazy out of date stereotypes. China has done in 80 years what took the USA 200 years, and western Europe 1000 years.