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acdhayesterday at 7:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Let China continue to cancel fossil fuel plants as they roll out renewables and electrify at rapid scale? It’s not 1980, China is leading a lot of key technologies and they’re looking like they value long-term planning a lot more than we do.

To the extent that they need a nudge, a carbon tax would be very effective for correcting export market incentives, too.


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tloganyesterday at 8:18 PM

They are doing so good that they increased their emission by 4.7% from 2022 to 2023. /s