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well_ackshually • today at 12:23 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>Instead they ban plastic straws while the Chinese burn another million tons of coal.

The chinese quite literally have greener energy than germany at the moment and are building the shit that you buy off of amazon. China is the only reason the current solar push is as successful as it is. Tame your sinophobia.


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graemep • today at 1:07 PM

According to this, Germany gets 84% of its energy from fossil fuels, and China 87%: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-mix?source=fossil_...

The trend is interesting too: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-mix?tab=line&count...

> nd are building the shit that you buy off of amazon.

So not buying Chinese made stuff on Amazon would help.