50k Club posted:Please don't cite China as a green paragon. If you've ever been to China, they are essentially 1960's-1970's USA relative to air and water pollution. The air quality and visibility there is horrendous. Open burning is widely practiced for rural areas. Add to that a burgeoning middle class that can afford automobiles, and there is an internal incentive to do something drastic.
Of course, when people plug in their electric cars, the coal-fired power plants will charge 'em right up.
Nobody is citing them as a green paragon. Exactly the opposite. The difference is they are doing something about it even though it's hard. While I'm sure the authoritarian government has profit in mind as much if not more as "being green", which was exactly the opposite of my post, they are still actively more engaged in alternative approaches. Having a billion people may have something to do with it.
Of course when you plug in the electric cars you'll have small wind turbines and a solar panel on each station just like at the new HyVee that opened up near me. See, that's the whole thing about energy production but you keep on ignoring it because supporting a dirty, dangerous, finite and failing industry in coal just makes good sense.
More idiotic excuses.