How The U.S. Fell Behind China In The Fight Against Climate Change
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- Ever since President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, China has played an increasingly large role in the international fight against climate change. The country is now the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels, lithium ion batteries, and electric vehicles. But while China has stepped up in these regards, it is still the global leader in carbon emissions, and burns more coal than the rest of the world combined. As President-elect Joe Biden looks to reassert American leadership in green energy and climate initiatives, it remains to be seen whether the U.S. and China can work collaboratively to address the climate crisis.
CORRECTION (November 16, 2020): Barbara Finamore and Alvin Lin both work at the “Natural Resources Defense Council” not the “National Resources Defense Council”
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How The U.S. Fell Behind China In The Fight Against Climate Change
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The world was shocked seeing smog in China. Yet, much worse smog in India isn't even reported for any attention. Apparently democratic smog is good smog.
It was reported.
😂😂
that democratic US freedom gas vs the Russian oppressive nordstream gas lmao
@@HaceSunnyDSol 😂😂😂
Democratic CIA surveillance vs communist sirveillance
It is shameless for developed countries to transfer manufacturing to developing countries and then enjoy clean environment and cheap goods while accusing developing countries of polluting the environment.
@WilMar I know you are absolutely right, in the last two years many countries in Asia have started to refuse the entry of garbage from western countries.
what else is new? The US has decimated the indians and now they are on their high horses and criticizing China's reaction on the Uyghur's restlessness, which the US caused if you think about it because of their policies of interfering in the mid-east .
@@DONGDAQIAO
I love it. It's about time the western nations get embarrassed for lying and bullying developing nations.
Reduce the consumer
@@alquemist7532 what do you have to say about the Chinese treatment of Indians ?
I lived in the city of Shenzhen a until last year. Since our city switched all buses and taxis to electric 2 years ago, the skies have become a lot bluer.
So still cloudy and barely visible. Got ya.
@@NM-qd3tm This isn't 2013, its 2020. Smog days are a rarity in China these days. If you want to see smog go to New Delhi.
When officials there have to brag about the percentage of "blue sky days" increasing by 6.6 points during the first quarter of 2020 (during a total lockdown btw) ovbviously the skys aren't quite as "blue" as you believe them to be.
@@NM-qd3tm You don't have to take the official's word for it. See for yourself.
I did notice that TH-cam videos taken in southern Chinese cities have shown gradually clearing air quality over the past 10 years. It's so nice to see the progress of aggressive pollution control.
China has 1.4B population and they are in developing stage. While Americans has 330M. Carbon emissions per capita is too much for America.
Don't forget that the west also push all manufacturing and garbage recycling to China and Asia along with the huge emissions from those activities all the while pointing fingers at China.
"All beings are equal" is like a joke
Correct but China has plans to build 100s of coal power plants. To keep up with there thriving economy.
So?
@@oldtestament8052 China continues to be the world's largest producer of renewable power from wind as well as solar photovoltaics, according to the International Energy Agency's Key World Energy Statistics report:
renews.biz/62737/china-tops-global-renewables-production
Being the largest producer and market for electric cars by far:
www.virta.global/global-electric-vehicle-market
Planting more than 66 billion trees since 1978 and continue expanding on that program:
earth.org/how-the-worlds-largest-fintech-company-is-greening-china/
Don't focus on the 100s. What China has done in clean energy and what other countries have done. If it comes to environmental pollution, is it not a problem that the mountain fires in the United States and Australia can not be extinguished for several months?
so easy for a developed nation to point fingers at developing countries, when you already went through the industrial phase and have tens thousands of factories in developing nations...
China is going to be next superpower correct they are moving faster than America is in the last 35 years they have transformed there country but they don't care what gets in their way Animals, forest, people, they are a machine. Amazing to see what they have done. But also genocide, 2 million in reeducation camp, ect if you criticize them at all.
@@oldtestament8052 AND CHINA f8CK UP IN HUMAN RIGHT: NOT ONLY THE URGHYR, THE TIENANMON SQUARE, THE FAR LUN GON, ALL THINGS ccp DONE, THERE ARE AGAINST THE HUMAN NATURE
@@ThanhHoQuangCSE Totally true but alot of there citizens love their country. 1,4 billion people working together as one. America thinks there people hate the CCP not true they are very proud of their heritage and culture and government. Just like in America some don't like the government. Biggest military in the world. The CCP brought there citizens wealth designer good and Capitalism and there people love them for it. But at the exspence of human rights but if we don't keep up they will take over the world. They are so far ahead of us in a lot of ways I give it 35 more years they will be the dominant global economy leader and be able to control the world. While we fight and argue about stupid politics and ideologys. I am just saying.
@@oldtestament8052 Lol? I don't think they have a choice in teh first place. They have to live with CCP, CCP isn't gonna go away without civil war.
@@ThanhHoQuangCSE are you american cia or funded by ned?
China has higher CO2 emission because it is the world factory; otherwise it could easily cut it by half. If US had to produce everything it needs, its CO2 emission would be off the chart. Those who blame China and at the same time uses MADE IN CHINA are hypocrites. And if China did not become the work factory, some other countries would have (e.g., India, Vietnam).
If you are truly concern about the climate, you need to reduce the material consumption by a big margin. Few Americans are willing to do that.
BTW, I am not trying to defend China, I am merely pointing out an inconvenient truth.
Hypocritical yankee: you're a CCP bot！！！!
Yup hypercrites using Chinese made device talking down on China lol
Tbh it's not Americans all the people really won't accept it not countries everyone in each country will not accept it
@@user-zs7lo5ik5z WTF are you, that's a weird YT account.
One in the interesting fact that China's per capita carbon emissions are much lower than the USA
But we have to consider the CO2 emissions per unit volume
US has a high footprint due to high personal consumption since people in the US are generally wealthier. China has a high footprint mainly due to high governmental consumption.
@The Voice of World What happened after 1980 in the same PRC, which turns out to be the second richest country in 2020?
That's because China's average disposable income is still less than half of that of Americans. But China makes it very clear that they don't want that wasteful culture so they will be regulating what they can, and *very* strictly.
Well theres many factors, for one only the rich can own a car. And outside of cities, most of them are still in ox carts. The standard of living is not the same. Middle class get mopeds, and only the elite have their own car. Nothing like the US where the only people without their own car are homeless people.
This is rare. Some kind words from US media on China. People must be in shock😂
Count me in. I need some time to take this in. 😂
I thought it was a clickbait but it was pretty fair. Good job CNBC.
You spoke my mind
How can you give kind words to China when they're literally commiting genocide and brainwashing their populace on a daily basis? Oh wait..it's CNBC. Makes sense.
No i am shocked because CNBC are a total joke, China hack. Not one story on the Australia - China war.
And here looking through the comments you can really tell how many people never traveled internationally.
I agree wholeheartedly
Agreed
Chinese are laughing at American in Toutiao, and American are laughing at Chinese in TH-cam. It is normal.
Internationally? American ppl don’t even travel to other states, 🤣 they only listen to their media then make ‘independent judgment’ on other countries lol
Watch ADV China channel TH-cam and get the real scoop on China from 2 guys who lived there for years. This video is hogwash.
A clean, healthy planet should not be a partisan issue. Everyone should want a greener planet
Its not a partisan Issue. How we achieve a greener planet, is a partisan issue.
Sadly it is a partisan issue , one party in US doesn’t even believe in climate change, they still believe and spread lies and keep backing coal and oil companies like selling new licenses for drilling In Alaska and giving green light to the XL pipeline
Of course, everyone wants a greener world but at what cost namely what economic sacrifices are nations willing to make: the problem lies in how to fairly spread the responsibilities...
How does manufacturing prosper without the use of carbon emissions ? People talk about about electric vehicles and ignore to point out the raw materials needed to make a car and the tires of the car, carbon emissions, oil and more are needed for that, not only that but the plastic people use in things like PVC pipes, processing wood etc.
@@edwinbrace4681 I'm not quite sure but militaries around the world and transportation of goods are responsible for a significant portion of pollutants...you got to start somewhere and so why not cars which will have very little impacting the beginning but as technology in battery efficiency and harnessing electricity improves hopefully we can reach sustainability.
4:39 "China's single party system leads to inefficiency". I hope I heard that wrong. If China is inefficient, what about all other countries?
narrator also said it “leads to corruption”. I don’t see why a single party inherently leads to corruption. Stuff seen as corruption by the Chinese and clamped down internally by the Chinese government are not seen as corruption in the US. There is “less corruption” in the states because corruption is legalized there. And also, the US makes it difficult for China to deal with corrupt officials that flee to the US as “political refugees”.
@@amyding5282 环境问题他们也能扯上政治，如香港台湾。
@@amyding5282 but the U.S. senators' corruption problem is well known as well tho...... Please correct me if I am wrong. I think if we want to use the term "Corruption", it has nothing to do with what kind of party or government we are talking about, it's just simply human desire. Being lived in a lot of places and travels, from China, State, Canada, Japan. I don't think Corruption only occurs in China currently, it's simply universal governments problem on earth.. Have you not heard of the recent Trudeau's corruption news in Canada. And that's definitely not a single party government.
@@amyding5282 they have a different word for "corruption". It's called "lobbying".
@老外艾迈德 china is also having a little concentration camp issue aren’t they
4:37 "China's single-party authoritarian system often leads to inefficiency" , if that was true, then I really didn't know WTF the rest of the world is doing.
You can question their policies on individual rights and stuffs, but to question their efficiency is stupid.
A one party system is in fact the most effective system we currently have, 2 party having a tug of war severely impedes efficiencies.
Like how china dealt with the uyghur extremism, it may not be the most appropriate way, but it is indeed the most efficient one.
@@smolpotatoe1744 your comment is so true, I live in Canada, and whenever China came up a plan for economic boost, they think of some sort of evil conspiracy, and believe China is torturing Chinese people.
Exactly my thought when I heard that. The strength of one-party system is high efficiency.
@Iron Kanabo didn't china straight up stop reporting cases?
@@bobjoebilly1z42 Go check their national channel, it reported 20 cases today, with 2 additional cases reported in Beijing, they are soon gonna lock down Beijing
When you're the world's factory, it is not surprising at all.
Exactly... They expect us to provide cheap products for the world while being extra clean while the nation is trying to alleviate poverty
Easily said than done
Exactly. China is producing things that other countries consume. Obviously China will create more CO2 emission. Cannot wait to see 4th generation nuclear power plants to come online to help the situation.
The situation is changing, most of China's GDP growth in last ten years has been from expanding domestic consumer market, rather than exports.
That's why China's stances in pollution and clean energy are extremely influential to all of the world.
@suburben yobbo yes that's influential in a bad way. Especially China has the biggest clean energy market in the world. Pretty bad for tech development tbh
Actually the city I currently live is called Guangzhou which is the third largest city of China. We have better air quality there than the LA since 2019 according to the US AQI. While the population there is like 5 times higher than in LA.
How can you use youtube if you live in China?
@@RishiAshar vpn... It is not necssary legal. But doesnt mean you cant do it
@@user-jh6vt8vx4v thanks for the information 🤗
@@canaldofred2366 The 2010 United States Census[114] reported Los Angeles had a population of 3,792,621. Guangzhou has about 15.30million，4 times maybe.
@@canaldofred2366 LA isnt a city purely made of Skyscrapers either.
Trump: China stole my clean energy plan!
It’s sad the man is about to lose his crown
Trump never wanted anything to do with clean energy.
He will definitely blame that
@@cross9688 you know why?
his daddy (the big oil corps) also dont
Now trump will say China stole is Presidency.......
China: takes covid seriously
US: thinks covid is a haox
China: knows climate change is real
US: global warming is a haox
China: Putting Muslims in camps
You:
China: Won’t allow its citizens to criticize the government
You:
China: Steals Billions of dollars worth of IP
You:
@@jaygee5874 and you are a troll as simple as that. Do you think only the Westerners can invent things ? th-cam.com/video/c9asRlrQ5-g/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=RTAmerica
@@themiddlekingdom9121 I never said everything China makes is stolen ... I only said they have stolen billions worth of IP and that is verifiable and true. Nice attempt at a straw man though loser .
@@jaygee5874 US: Muslim ban. US: POTUS questions a fair election. US: Arrests Chinese scientists and bullies Chinese companies.
@@Eli-rg1vd Lol the travel ban was for certain Muslim countries, not a ban on just Muslims. Nice try Chinese bot
Even if u dont believe in climate change, it’s always good to give back to the Earth with cleaner energy for better environment.
@FuranDuron That will have consequences. Keep using non renewable resources and see what happens to our planet. We HAVE to move towards green energy, we do not have a choice.
@FuranDuron The fossil fuel industry doesn't pay for the externalities of their product - you pay for climate change and healthcare costs related to pollution. Global subsidies for fossil fuels were $5.3 Trillion in 2015 or 6.5% of global GDP.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X16304867
You're right about not paying for someone else's dreams.
@FuranDuron Lmao you want to breathe in toxic air? Die 20 years earlier? Pollution is not a joke.
@FuranDuron Renewables now cheaper. Also you don't be saying that when there's droughts
It is also new technologies and China can win this race of technological leadership.
David Attenborough said in his latest film on Netflix climate change Act's isn't about saving the planet but saving ourselves and if you think about it it's true Edit 11 months later who are you guys
Oooo what’s the film name?
@@kneegear5123 A life on our planet
@@DRcrimeinvestigate Sorry to break your bubble these are by people in Beijing (not by propaganda medias): th-cam.com/video/lGQke3dJdNU/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/IzVovZPA_8A/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/mE9HAX507ec/w-d-xo.html
@@mickkrever4084 I don't get why you showing china and usa all am saying climate change acts such as reducing carbon emission isn't about saving the planet but saving ourselves because no one wants to live in a frequently flooded area or experiencing extreme drought on the other end we wouldn't thrive
George Carlin pointed this out years before, too
It’s not hard to outpace someone who is not moving.
Well said dude
I am an American. When I look up at the sky and see that it is red because all of the forests on the West Coast are burning down, I am truly thankful that:
1. The car that I drive is no longer sold in America because it was too fuel efficient and affordable.
2. The type of house that I live in is illegal in most US residential areas because it is too compact, affordable, and energy efficient.
3. Due to low density zoning, people often can't afford to live near their places of work --> 20 mile one way commutes.
Your comment makes me want to laugh, but also cry.
In my lifetime, I saw Chinese streets filled with cyclist, to its main city covered in smog, to a world leader in climate change. Now that's progress.
I came to the exact same realization recently.
I came to the realization that the governments of the world are using this climate change nonsense to shift wealth and consolidate power, thus placing us under their thumb. I further realize that the state sponsored media will be working to drive home the false narrative, so much so that people will beg for their own enslavement
@@hairyasstruman2257 I’m more worried about corporations
China is a country that actually gets things done, the United States used to be like that but no longer. America is a declining power: politically dysfunctional and broken, China has quite a promising future……
@@greenlime1997 By murdering, cheating, lying, stealing, raping, and enslaving.
Measure the emission by per capita, where is your human rights rhetoric now? Each human being must has the same right of carbon emission
That is the first time I have ever heard of anyone accusing Trump of being an human rights advocate.
The Average is 5.
The USA'S is over 15, I think.
China's is 7.
@DropkicktheDecepticon why?
If China is ahead of the US and is still manufacturing products for US, doesn't that make China way way ahead.
I don’t think China is ahead of anybody,they are the world’s number one polluter and their numbers will rise for ten years before they will make any commitments. The U.S has converted to natural gas from coal lowering their emissions. Ones going up ones going down it’s there if you listen close but they do their best to hide it in propaganda
@@jimgaston9863 you're right, the place China is the number one polluter. Because they have to make the American
iPhones parts,
Tesla parts,
Levi's,
Nike,
Fisher- Price,
Mattel,
Goodyear,
Dell,
Ford motor parts,
General motors parts,
Harley Davidson parts,
Heinz food,
Honeywell,
IBM,
Johnson &Johnson,
McDonald's,
Walmart products,
and many more American products, including Trump's hat 'Make America Great Again' 🤣
and manuafuring the rest of the world's products.
And China is selling electric buses to the US&A. 🤣
If you can judge a country wealth based on income per citizen why not judge a countries pollution by carbon footprint per person. Oh also, China banned plastic, textile, and paper waste imports in 2018 and western countries struggled and dumping trash and recyclables into landfills. Get ready for a second round. China is banning all solid waste imports starting Jan 1 2021. Western countries are like "wait a minute, wth"
China sets this carbon peak timeline of another decade ( 2030)because of manufacturing brought huge wealth and now their middle class wealth population is largest in the world by numbers. But there is still more work to be done to bring another hundred million into the middle class which will drive up the service market in the next decade. As wages grow, it is only natural that manufacturing jobs may go to other less developed countries and emissions will be reduced.
You can not have a beautiful renovated house (future)without knocking down the drywall (pollutions). Now China has the wealth, engineers, infrastructure and research investments to plan for a greener tomorrow.
@@zhaokwong5544 but it’s an existential threat,we are all going to die!!!!!!!!!! Don’t you hear them,we are supposed to give up all our luxuries and return to the Stone Age. Besides what does that have to do with using coal for electricity and using the rivers and oceans for landfills when mankind now knows better.
@@kl9518 China doesn’t have to manufacture anything,America offered China its market in the 70’s to help it rise out of extreme poverty after Moa’s disastrous cultural revolution and as a counter to the ussr. 50 yrs later it continues to use 65% of all the coal burnt every year because it is the cheapest way to generate electricity. It also continues to use its rivers as garbage dumps that empty into the ocean because it is cheaper and easier than landfills. If China wants to present itself as a super power,it can start by playing by international rules and norms. It has had a 50 yr grace period in the minors but still wants to play in the majors while doing things on the cheap. They can clean up their act,it’s just financially advantageous to keep playing the victim and carry on polluting
Why is it necessary for the sentence of "corruption and inefficiency" ?
first time watching the western media?
moral high ground
放中国国旗的时候，有意无意的下面是围墙和铁丝网
It’s called “censorship”. Any media report about China must have some certain ideology term that downplays China, otherwise it doesn’t get on air. This one has the least. So as a Chinese, my thanks to the author/editor of this video.
It's all about good governance, never the system of the government. Democracy, if falls in the hand of people like Trump, it is a sham.
The “expert” lost me at: “China is not doing much, though it is moving a lot of pieces..” something like that
The US fell behind China in everything except producing more weapons to improve humanity 🤣🤣🤣
@THEGODFATHER Tell that to Libya. The western countries bought "peace" in the form of bombs, a broken failed state and african slaves now sold in Libya markets.
we still will beat ppl at football
For freedom!
@@KillenEMsoftly literally, your sport is crashing into people and giving them concussions
Yeah, China has already perfected organ harvesting technology to the point where you can decide what date to get a heart transplant. US is nowhere close!!
I have relatives living China's rural areas. The subsidies are huge for alternative energy.
That's because they don't work and nobody would spend their own money on them.
Not what I heard, some also have problem because they aren't allowed to use coal anymore and heating only with electricity is too expensive for them
@@tiloalo Geothermal.
@@KRYMauL geothermal for a private person is not a thing in China, rural area are poor and they wouldn't be able to afford that
Just can't get past what they will do with 302 million toxic car batteries when they expire...
OMG this must be the first Western media that finally said something good about China.
and only to get an assist for their own agenda
Open your 👀. There's subtle China Bashing in different parts of the video
It’s not. Don’t be biased like the other qanon folks
Tbh I visited china once 2 yrs ago and it’s not as bad as you showed in the pictures in Beijing and I swear places like yunnan have bluer skies than here...
I was in Xiamen about 4 years ago and had to quickly exit the toxic soup after about 12 hours. I worked hard to find a Tesla taxi to the airport so as not to add to the filth in the air.
Saving the future of the planet is apparently a partisan issue. Maybe we humans are not worth saving either ways
It’s all apart of the great plan
Maybe YOU'RE not worth saving...
Donald Trump made everything partisan
@ᆞ파랑색 That means you hate yourself. Good.
@@SuperNeutralino Can't tell if their name is in either Korean or Japanese, but I do know that they are not Chinese
Have developed country paid for their price when they were developing?
@Felix Han you mean colonism and wars?
Norway 🇧🇻 is trying. :(
@@Mmmmmmmwwww No, they mean that over the past 150 years, the US has filled the atmosphere with about 1/4 of the limit that we have already exceeded for life on the planet, so they should help pay for the rest of the world to jump past carbon energy. Much of that money should be coming from oil companies and their shareholders.
我真是服了，夸一个国家也能全负面报道。
the energy needs to serve 1.4 billion people and generates most of the consumer goods to the world. Compared to the US, the amount of coal based plants and per capita carbon emission is a outright miracle, not to mention the efforts to replace them with renewable sources.
这种西式八股文是西方传媒的传统
双标是核心思想，内容是自由发挥，事实是全由心证
@@jackphilib3979 哈哈，很精准
Multinational corporations have a management team that debate for the best of the company. Same goes with China Inc's management team. Imagine having two management teams fighting one another in Pfizer, Coca Cola, PepsiCo, Microsoft, Boeing, and every four years, everyone from the factory to the security guards and C level management were given one vote each to decide which management to hold position, and both management spent first year to decouple previous management's effort, one year to run the company, and the next two years to seek re-election. Efficient?
Well said.
PS: The video producer need to be politically correct XD
Bullseye
democracy is actually inherently less efficient. But there are other things that people value besides raw efficiency, like civil rights and the rule of law. China is pretty bad in that metric. Labor rights? China is pretty bad in that metric, and they will NEVER have a real advocate in the party because there are no elections. Yes, the US is slow, full of bureaucracy, etc., etc. I know. But that doesn't excuse China from any of its sins, nor the US.
@@user-hy6cp6xp9f congratulations!
Commenter you have received the common sense award someone who isnt brainwashed by death cult falun gong propaganda (China uncensored, NTD and Epoch times) and Chinese propaganda (global times etc) is a rare sight nowadays.
@@countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926 NTD and Epoch Times isn't brainwashing btw. And your name tells everyone everything one needs to know about you but still, we are open minded.
In China. They do it together.
兄弟你住在TH-cam里吗？
Found piano guy.
You are everywhere
@@umarzaman8135 if you're seeing him everywhere that means you're everywhere
@@jaisejacob4516 gottem
We should really stop ranking countries based on total CO2 emissions, instead, we should be using per capita CO2 emission. USA has a per capita CO2 emission of 16.1 metric tons, for China, it is 8.0 and for India, it is 1.9. And still, Trump blames China and India for pollution.
China is way more at fault than you think they are.
Just for perspective, China, the single largest polluter of C02, releases more than the United States, India and Russia COMBINED.
2018 data:
China: 10.06 GT
United States: 5.41 GT
India: 2.65 GT
Russia: 1.71 GT
Not only has China broken treaties after treaties on climate agreement, they have built even more coal power plants after promising not to. They have the ability to produce clean-coal but instead rather not, and supply the people with dirty coal that produces toxins instead.
The real problem here is China's government. Not the people. China has been consistent on breaking treaties, agreements and promises, and breaking international trust and also undermining international organizations.
Because there are more than 1 billion people living in China. If you say “nah I don’t care they should have lower carbon emisión than the USA” then you might want to commit genocide. So mister smart ass, you want a genocide ?
How breaking treaties... how about USA...
The US is more consistent and Isn't reliant on Foreign Exports.
The US has Broken Treaties so did the British Empire and the Soviet Union.
China is just 2x Worst.
THE soviet Union,The British Empire and the Us has broken over 20 Treaties Combined but China or Communist China has broken it over 62 times.
Just to be clear, I'm not justifying China and India, they are also responsible. What I'm saying is US should not blame China and India alone for this.
Xi and China, I give credit where credit is due, well done, please stay the course 🇨🇳🌿 - continue to invest in green energy
I live in China and most of my friends including me, don’t own a car, meanwhile in the US people have like 2 cars per family or even more!
@@TheSeniorTaco The point is why do Americans always pointing fingers at the Chinese, demanding them to do something that Americans can’t do? China has one of the worlds most serious emissions restrictions while America has non. Give you an example, to buy a 5.0 mustang in China, you need to pay more than 100k usd due to the emissions laws. In the us you only pay half of the price. See the hypocrisy here?
Wow! That Is amazing, here in America, it’s normal for wealthier or even middle class families to have 2 or even 3 cars! It’s really disappointing that people don’t take climate change seriously
@@hello16yearsago43 It is disappointing that developed country like the US blaming pollution problems on developing countries like China or India, by using per country data rather than per capita. By CO2 emission per capita, an average American's CO2 emission is over two times of an average Chinese person, over seven times of an Indian person, yet no media ever cover about that. Everything is about bashing China and other rising powerhouses now, no politician actually care about climate change, they just want to urge these country's development by forcing them to sign unfair emission agreements under the fancy name of protecting the earth, while themselves are the ones that produce more waste and pollutes than others.
@@21sausage9 yes, my parents are Indian, and they know how much electricity as Americans use. My parents teach me how to cut down on electricity. Sadly, a lot of people here make a political issue out of something as simple as wearing a mask or actually doing something about climate change. They think that it’s a “threat” by the Chinese. In reality, most of those people are just lazy to have an impact.
@@hello16yearsago43 the ideology and mindset behind all this political drama are sick. The United States and Europe really worry that when China becomes the world’s leader, the Chinese will treat them the same way how they have been colonizing and oppressing the world in the past centuries.
Americans: did u just say CHINA is better than our great nation? PrOPagANdA
UyGhURs, InnNer MonGoliA
“We’re playing a planet-scale chess game.”, said a basement-dwelling migrant NMSLese worker to be evicted any moment.
@To Release is To Resolve nice of u to ask. Im chinese american u racist
@To Release is To Resolve anyone that disagrees with me is a shill :')
Well considering China has twice twice the amount of carbon emissions as the US - yeah it is kind of propaganda
Simple, the US made saving the planet and the well-being of humankind a political, business-oriented circus. Much like we have with most things in this country concerning the well-being of our people...
The US has been the leader in carbon reduction for the last 15 years
@Hunie Bone dude i said carbon REDUCTION
@Hunie Bone No true, china produse 25% and their historical emissions so far is only 12% but from EU is 22% and from US is 25%.
Now you can talk..
@@jsebby2284 now China is the leader
Can you guys not understand the fact that the US population is just a portion of the size compared to China's (300 million to 1.3 billion), so the emissions per capita of the US is higher. But even if China's emissions per capita is lower than the US', it's still high. And everyone should think of the fact that developed countries had a head start in carbon emissions and development using high carbon-emission resources, so even if they have a lower proportion now, they have a higher proportion historically. Countries which are developed should invest money into renewables in their own countries and also developing countries which don't have the money themselves. This would be a win-win to both developed and developing countries, as they wouldn't have to deal with the emissions.
When we talk about climate and pollution, we cannot measure it by "output ratio per country" but "output ratio per capita". A larger country will consume more than a smaller country. It's like comparing 10 person household with a one person household. Doesn't make sense.
Too complicated for Americans to understand.
We should add another measurement: manufacturing output per capita. China is probably much higher than US because China is manufacturing for the world.
Visited China in 2002 (post WTO), 2009 (post Olympics and high speed rail investment) and 2016 (midst of their green energy push), and last in 2018. Frankly, the urban landscape has changed by leaps and bounds. Shenzhen is the showcase city for EV, I was surprised at how many taxis were running on electric. High speed rail providing seamless connection between hubs and nodes.
I can see why the US containment strategy has shifted towards Chinese tech during trump’s administration. Without a serious commitment by US politicians to ramp up infrastructure stateside, it’s a matter of time before Chinese green tech will dominate globally.
People seem oblivious to the fact that often 50% of your public tech infrastructure like trains and busses, and in many cases up to 95% of your elecronic devices are built and often engineered from the ground up in China. This shifts CO2 emissions towards China.
only to morons.
And your point?
@Jeff jj and whatever planet you're from, simpleton.😉
@@Agtsmirnoff Why do you so desperately seek points?
@@Agtsmirnoff By the way, these are by people in Beijing (kind of surprising) th-cam.com/video/mE9HAX507ec/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/lGQke3dJdNU/w-d-xo.html
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Am i the only one who loves what the chinese president has done over the years
Admirable indeed
in that respect only, when you talk about human rights, well, that's a whole other ball game.
@Libertarian im a Jamaican so not me ur talking to
Nope
You and Joe
Joe loves china
To be fair, the US never started a fight against climate change.
@DropkicktheDecepticon not the worst. 90% of countries don't care about climate change.
I love to see the super powers compete in being the greenest rather than the meanest...
Rotating the people in charge every 4 years fosters short term goals. Say what you will about China's government but they set goals decades into the future
yea..Okay CCP Virus Spy
My wife is Chinese btw
@@Pauloveskim bro you serpantz's incognito account
You're on point. Moreover, war mongering USA is living out waning days in twilight zone with -
- ever growing mountain of debt ($ 27 Trillions),
- mighty deficit,
- costly wars in Iraq/Afghanistan ($ 8 Trillions),
- ever widening gap between the richest One Percent and the rest,
- disharmony between the Rich and the Poor, etc.
A website with 4 million views says it all at, blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1795128
Wow, how to justify authoritarian dictatorship
@@nissachann our own president says is saying our elections are fraudulent and corrupt.
2020: We’re really close to failing, but we will succeed.
2060: Yeah..., about that.
@Blue Skin Alien No. Humanity will be gone by 2050.
Even though US transfers all its factories to China, it still has 2 times more CO2 emission per capita than China.
in this instance per capita is irrelevant. China produces the most pollution in the world by far.
@@Big-Government-Is-The-Problem so the goal post moves again to suit you.
@@Big-Government-Is-The-Problem Sure US is 1000 times more than HK.
@@milkoowen6800 working hard for the 50 cent army i see...
@@hoodrobin4397 well thats a stupid comparison... go ahead and keep earing that 50 cents per post, i know you gotta feed yourself at any cost. damn propagandists lol
Yes, as a Chinese living in Beijing, I drive electronic car.
That's not because I love it, there is a very strictly control policy for gasoline car in large cities.
And BTW, new brands of Chinese electronic cars are blooming these years.
I hope I can buy one of those in the future. I watch @Jabiertzo in TH-cam and he shows how real life in China is. And he showed some awesome electric vehicles!!! I really recommend his channel
Instead of the cold war space race we should have a green war climate action race.
Facts
Good idea
@@xammeron3842 Sorry to break your bubble these are by people in Beijing (not by propaganda medias): th-cam.com/video/mE9HAX507ec/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/lGQke3dJdNU/w-d-xo.html
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@@mickkrever4084 ugh always room to improve. America pioneered energy and have to reconstruct our infrastructure. China doesn't have to reinvent the wheel and can build all new modern infrastructure. China is ancient but also brand new
China could have used coal gas and oil but deserves props for trying for the most part to look for alternatives. Likey because they have to import oil and gas
No word on population density of nations. Per capita energy usage in western world is incredibly high.
Per capita annual CO2 varies greatly even among western countries.
@@zhongxina9569 You are correct. But generally Populus nations in south east asia have way low per capita energy consumption than other developed nations. Convenience/luxuries in developing nations are scarce and newer technologies adapted by developing nations are more efficient for larger population. Average per capita energy consumption for USA is 3 times higher than China and 10 times higher than India. 🙃
@@neelmehta1479
Yet, China releases more C02 than the US, India and Russia COMBINED. If its not per capita, then what does it says about China?
It simply means the government is the sole contributor and pollutor. 10.06 GT of C02 emission while the US released 5.41 GT. That is a staggering number that is set to increase drastically in the coming few months as supply chains begin to open up again.
@@nexu6517 It'll be an inevitable cost of living and manufacturing until a better, cleaner energy source is discovered simply due to China's vast population size. Short of slaughtering half the Chinese population, it'll continue until technology improves. I have faith that technology will.
Also, arguing back and forth about who pollutes more or less doesn't help anyone. Imagine hypothetically that China's (or any one country's) emissions magically drop to 0 right this very moment. Sounds great, and it is, until you realize that the rest of the world's emissions will still be enough to finish the job. Same goes if the USA drops to 0. The entire world is to blame for our mess.
@@nexu6517 China is the manufacturing hub for the world but per capita compared to the US, the US leads the world in C02 emissions.
This is much better journalism than some of your other videos, very clear and informative, as well as detailed and precise.
this is the same as
usa: "you can't make nukes!"
country X: "it's just a nuclear plant, for the development of the country plus you have nukes..."
usa: "yeah, i can, but you cant"
country X: "..."
I already see more and more blue sky in BeiJing
Last time I went to Beijing was last year and I didn't see a blue sky for a week. Not because of bad weather but because of smog. On one day I could only see about 10-15m ahead of me. It might be less than before but it's still by FAR the worst I've seen in all of the 31 countries I've visited.
That's because of coronavirus lol
北京
@@wedmunds China is fully recovered from COVID, daily work and life continues. The only growing economy in 2020.
@@stijnhs Beijing is especially difficult to improve due to the anti sand storm problem during the 80s and 90s there are lots of trees surrounding Beijing making the air flow of the city minimal
Simple, the US stopped seriously trying
I don’t think they were ever seriously trying
@@realgenuinemakour they were definitely trying to do something during Obama, but they defo weren't doing the most they could, partially due to Republican congress
@David Smith yeah the us has NEVER done things like that, right? 🤦🏼♂️
It only comes under trump administration. US became crap after that, under biden i hope it will change
@David Smith huh billions are you being sarcastic
And here is india. People fighting among themselves over damn religion. Protecting their so called dharma
well said
Blinded bafoon
But modi has really done a great job with climate change
When you just debating about climate change, but the other has done something for it.
China saw green energy as a business opportunity while the US was throwing tamper tantrum. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
China fakes there green energy plans. Dont believe the hype
@@gizroc These are by people in Beijing (kind of surprising) th-cam.com/video/mE9HAX507ec/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/lGQke3dJdNU/w-d-xo.html
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@@mickkrever4084 thats a nice travel vlog. Im sure it got approved by the ccp before upload. Lol
@@gizroc lol you just can’t accept the reality of China’s advancements.
China cant accept freedom of religion or free speech.
corruption and inefficiency?! Are you blind or what?
Makes me wonder. Chinese efficiency is amazing.
Right, from a news agency in a country that can't keep Covid #s in control and has a legalized gov bribery system - lobby groups, I was blushing for them lol
I love the comments saying “this is Chinese propaganda bla bla bla” because they clearly didn’t watch the video because they literally spent a portion criticizing China
0:05
Me: Why would you ever wear that?
2020: Oh just wait
hahaha corruption and inefficiency... I think you guys should save those words for the American government.
国内官场本来就腐败，扯皮也很严重。我爸在两个县干过书记，后来又干副市和政法委，每年别人来送的礼超过七位数
Which is ironic, considering the fact that China scores higher than America on the Corruption Index (www.transparency.org/en/cpi).
@@sunlightspear7000 Yeah, China bad on a western list. What else is new?
Wumao
@@jayliu6076 NMSLese shilling for Chi-na, anything new?
“China’s single party authoritarian often leads to inefficiency”
Me：From a third world country to becoming global superpower in just a short amount of time. You call that inefficiency？！ Lmao。You’re using a different dictionary there。
@Leonardo Viegas democracy isn't the solution to a wealthy country... if not, look at the different economies around the world.. it is good governance. LOL....
I like how she says that like it's supposed to be obvious
@@aroy9211 China will fall as fast as it rose? Apparently you've not been reading China history.. go back to your cave.. LOL..
@@aroy9211 China has 5000 years and more of history. You need to read.. Lol... So funny...
@@aroy9211 the world didn't start from western civilization.. You also need to read other world history... Sumaria.. Come and gone... Try to know history of the world before engaging in debate.. If not you sound ignorant.
when you look at the chart of the coal power plant between china, america and india, though china is slightly higher relative to america and india, but china has 1.4bil population while america is only 380mil. Per capita of population, america is actually significantly higher.
It’s odd that the info in the video directly contradicts the title of the video.
climate change climate change....
suddenly....issues of taiwan, issues of hong kong....i mean...wtf!?
so what? that is a different topic, don't drag it here
Well china didn't hearing from west and never care about what west thinking about china
Suddenly organ harvesting, silencing journalists, and the Chinese government straight up lying on their emission reports all fades away
@@benisbored5446 Falun gong member spotted.
They're like cancer
The people complaining about the title of the video should watch the video.
CNBC has ruined its integrity over the years.
@@tompeters4234 I think they've been doing very well with the short explanatory video format.
@@off4on LOL
@@tompeters4234 the caps lock button is above shift btw
@@gnad69 The CAPS lock button is NOT under the shift BTW.
Fair reporting! I'm subscribing without hesitation. Keep it going, this is the special part of you when you're telling some truth.
I may not agree with everything China does... but I'm happy to see that they are trying so hard to be better & even lead on the global stage as far as climate is concerned.
Katie Brigham ROCKS!!! Hasn't disappointed me yet! Top of the line report. Our entire world needs this info well presented. Thank you.
Just can't get past what they will do with 302 million toxic car batteries when they expire...toxic waste doesn't just get recycled. WHere is that half of the story Katie who rocks?
4 times of population of America but less emissions, no thanks.
Poverty,less electronic waste.
@@Dk-ie4te China is 5 times larger than The US think about it
@@growthmindhub5008 but average US citizen is way richer,just look at the data.
They still live in village areas with less technology.
@@Dk-ie4te China is just a developing country and it still needs time to develop
@@Dk-ie4te Have you ever been to China? I can tell you that majortity of cities in China are more advanced than US
The US was never ahead of China in the fight against climate change. The fair way to compare the 2 countries would be to compare on a per capita basis and account for the fact that much of the factories in China are there to make affordable things for the rest of the world. Even when you include all the factory or industrial emissions, the U.S. is still the leader in per capita emissions, with about 17.6 tons of GHGs emitted per singular person. By comparison, China stands at 10.5 tons per citizen. How is this possible you ask. Well, most urban Chinese use mass transportation such as trains, subways, or buses instead of driving their own cars. Many of the mass transit systems including highspeed rail are electrified which further reduces emissions. Many still ride bikes or e-bikes or e-scooters. Many don't have heat in the winter or AC in the summer. Many don't have the luxury to take showers every day. The list goes on and on. Ural Chinese work on the farm from their villages so they either walk or bike to their fields. Bulk of the emissions are from the factories that make the stuff we consume outside of China.
Would love to see an update on this in 6 months to a year.
Good luck with a republican majority Senate
Correction: Good luck with any government system that allows Lobbying. If you think for a second that Democrats can't be bought, I got some nice real estate in Alaska for you.
If a US politician brought in a snowball to argue that climate change is a hoax, then sorry we are behind.
Fossil fuel industry basically pays them to be stupid and ignorant
@@art4freak795 So true. We are 4 years behind because of trump.
@@headishome8452 it's not the priority for trump, if we are 4 years behind because of trump which I do agree then we are 8 years behind obama/biden on international trade tariffs.
People need to stop looking at China for the amount of greenhouse gasses it does produce and look at the ratio of greenhouse gasses to population ratio instead.
Per capita, the US, Australia and other countries produce several times more green house gasses than China and India.
America needs to be working on the efficiency of their power usage. Public transport and using less personal cars are a good start if they can change their culture.
My parents live in a small city in sw China. Our apt was installed a solar panel water heater back in 2002, and we had to share with three other neighbors, so sometimes in winter it really wasn’t enough hot water, and the pipe would freeze up. Then we moved into a single house around 2006 and we installed a newer generation solar panel for our house. It’s pretty reliable and no longer freeze up during winter time with the insulated pipes. Enough hot water is provided for the whole family to take daily showers, pretty good. And it cost about ¥250k to install the whole system.
China is actually amazingly efficient they have more than 4 times the amount of people than USA and more than double the amount of production yet emissions are high it’s not high considering the population and production
US and China Fight against Climate Change
Philippines:It is very too late we suffer because of you
You don't have to point far to place that blame.
@rgs rgs lmfao me too 😂
@rgs rgs excuse me??? The last time I check we do have humans too... and besides, it will happen all throughout the globe, not just on this side of the world...
I do live in Philippines and we still have jeepneys 😂😂
@@mysticworld213 Korean girls plastic 🤮
an update of this will be interesting
2:11 Thats what I call one frame per second 👌
Embarrassing in my book for some reason not everyone in the US takes climate change seriously for whatever reason
@Jason Lane you’re the problem
Most people that don't take it seriously are those that are turned off by the alarmism.
@Jason Lane no you are the problem
@Jason LaneYou are living proof of reverse Darwinism
because its all a joke and i GARENTEE you yourself have done ANY actual research in the subject, you just get told something over and over and over and eventually you think well i guess it MUST be true
does this mean musk danced for electric cars and electric pickup truck too soon?
Forget the western egos , in the Philippines right now we’re moving forward hopping we will fallow China 🇨🇳 progress step by step
agreed
It's constant pointing and blaming...really loud sounds.
If we keep moving along it will quiet down, since they don't do anything lol
Carbon tax should be like VAT, so the ultimate user pays the tax, not just the manufacturer. China may have the largest carbon emission, but the majority of it is for manufacturing goods for foreign customers, especially USA.
In short, China actually cares about climate change and has the political backing to push for government subsidies for green projects even if they run at a deficit. In the US, it is purely capital driven. If its not a profit making model, it doesn't get the endorsement.
One area of social economic benefit is high speed rail. They are for the most part not profitable but is the most efficient way to transport large groups of people between cities.
Im an engineering supervisor working in one of the biggest cities in the US’s utility companies and watching the energy trends in China, its 100% clear China is the leader in green tech.
Yes they pollute a lot, but they make everything there, its hard to not but they are also the most committed to clean energy. Shenzhen is a pilot program for the entire country to completely electrify. Its kind of amazing to watch.
If Shenzhen is successful, I beleive in true Chinese fashion, they will replicate it in other large 1st tier cities across China
Basically it is okay they hella polute take our work and use us as slaves.. okay.. your right...
One quick note: Air pollution and Carbon emission are two things. The coal plants built in this decade still emits lot amount of CO2, but they are not contributing to air pollution anymore.
dude how dense are you. The coal plants are emitting a lot of C02 into the atmosphere
@Stanley Goddard www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/caos-cm110519.php
www.nature.com/articles/s41560-019-0468-1
"As a result, China's annual power plant emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter dropped by 65%, 60% and 72% from 2.21, 3.11 and 0.52 million tons in 2014 to 0.77, 1.26 and 0.14 million tons in 2017, respectively."
Look it up, stop back-back imformed.
@Stanley Goddard how all coal plants contribute to air pollution ≠ how coal plants BUILT IN THIS DECADE contribute to air pollution
@Stanley Goddard I think he meant pm2.5 particulates pollution which contributes to smogs vs greenhouse gas emissions. High purity coals emits carbon monoxide but does not produce as much smoke.
@Stanley Goddard false - they don't produce much air pollution... the soot is controlled in the new plants... but they do release carbon. carbon has to do with heat - not pollution
Nice video. Would be great to do the same thing about the EU, are its commitments enough or too low for what it could be??
No countries commitments are enough. Only a few individuals.
Is this title correct lol 😂
I hope they are. The air quality in China is a lot worse then the US. The Earth is resilient and if we all take the right steps now we can make the quality of our air, water, and health better.
China has a population of 1.5 billion, US has a population of 325 million. Understandable.
At least show the correct reference
At 6:28 -6:31, the video is from India and not China.
Why and how do you guys do such a poor job?
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As of 2019, renewable energy technologies provide about 17.3% of Canada's total primary energy supply. For electricity, renewables provide 67%.
Very inspiring
7:18 Hire a new graph person!
Trump can fix with sharpie
@@pipperrockchuk5985 sharpie is recommended actually.
Correct.
Well spotted!
you can see so many misleading graphs in western media these days.
i smell so much hate lol
Maybe its the smog coming out of Beijing. Lol
Well get used to it. If you watch /read/listen to news at all nowadays in the west, 99 times out of 100 it’s negative, sometimes nefariously so, like the Australian prime minister lashing out at a Chinese artist a few days ago for illustrating the Australian scandal of killing innocent afghan civilians. I mean hey, so chinese artist cannot have freedom of expression but western media can paint the coronavirus with chinese flag. This is what China gets for becoming a strong and aggressive nation. It’s not going to be easy. I wish Xi would just lie low and develop the economy with a low profile, instead of stepping into the limelight and drawing attention.
@@missyxixi i know 看美国人黑中国黑了20年了
@@missyxixi i agree!! Who does winnie the poop think he is.... The President of the united states. HAHAHA!
we have to pay for grocery bags in Beijing since 10 years ago, so all the families are reusing plastic bags multiple times. And i moved to New York and get double bags everywhere, i was like wtf, and eggs and milk and meat all get their separate bags (in some stores) too?! convenient but not environmental friendly.
U.S. still the number one pollution per person in the world, and yet they had the audacity to point finger at others regarding climate problem.
How come most of these videos never mention the negatives of renewable sources?
Apparently heavy metals aren't an issue until 20-30 years from now when billions of PV panels start failing or don't produce enough energy to justify their surface coverage. Kick the can down the road and enjoy the hippy moment.
That's a good point
Someone in Comment = Ok lets talk about china's plan and progress in climate change...
Random jealous Indians and Westerners in reply : *Well well Let me introduce uyghur, hongkong and tiananmen square first..*
*yogurts not uygures
2:11 Lagged Zoom video, 2020's signature
Thank you