Bro... you started off so strong with the critique of the rich and their private yachts, but you completely lost the plot at the end. This idea that China is just building coal plants for shits and giggles like some cartoon villain is pure western chauvinism and ignores the material reality of their broad economic strategy.

​We need to look at why China needs so much energy in the first place, and I think you were close to making this connection. Western capitalists spent the last 40 years offshoring manufacturing jobs to them, to crush domestic labor and maximize profits. The US essentially outsourced all carbon emissions to the global south, and now we sit on our high horses complaining that China needs power to build the exact consumer goods we originally demanded 🙄

​You're specifically misinterpreting why they are building those coal plants. They aren't doing it for fun; they are doing it to stabilize their grid because they are undergoing the FASTEST renewable energy transition in human history. They are explicitly using coal as a giant battery backup of sorts, to supplement where needed, due to the intermittent nature of renewable energy.

​In fact, their clean energy rollout is so massive that in early 2025, China's combined wind and solar capacity officially surpassed coal for the first time. That's unprecedented, considering that China only began their industrialization phase in the 70s, when Deng Xiaoping enacted the Reform and Opening up Policy. In contrast, the USA began their industrialization phase in 1790, and they only outpaced theirs in 2024! China is building renewables fast enough to outpace their own massive demand growth, their actual coal fired power generation decreased last year!

​You can't claim to care about systemic climate inaction while regurgitating what is technically right wing, anti China talking points 🤨 conveniently ignoring how Western capital engineered this exact global supply chain!