• cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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    17 hours ago

    Who is “we”? If we’re talking about the US then the “progress” made is a negative number. They’ve made whatever the opposite is of progress.

    If we’re talking about China, that’s an entirely different story…their progress has been stunning and objectively globally unparalleled.

    And Europe, i’d say it’s somewhere in between those two, always seeming to take one step back for every step forward.

    • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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      17 hours ago

      The US’s emissions have been falling even in spite of political leadership, but they could certainly be falling a lot faster.

      Canada on the other hand… is iirc the only g7 country with rising emissions.

      Edit: here’s the graphs (US singled out for visibility of the others)

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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        14 hours ago

        Seeing how the US has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement, which itself is the bare minimum of symbolic actions and really lacks any real enforcement mechanisms, and seeing how, through Democrat and Republican administrations alike it has continued to double down on fracking and offshore drilling, i’d say the US political elite appears to be trying to deliberately do everything they can to make their emissions rise. If despite all of this emissions are still going down, i have to wonder how much of that is simply due to the de-industrialization and outsourcing of industry that has been happening for the past three decades. In which case no credit can or should be given to the US on this issue whatsoever, because all they did was export the problem so someone else would have to try and solve it.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      17 hours ago

      The video points out that most of the progress is driven by China, and it also notes that North America is where the least progress is being made. However, even in the US the cost of renewable energy is low enough now that it’s starting to be used increasingly due to economic reasons. I thought the video was pretty well done all in all.