To people criticizing China, needs to remember, the pollutions that goes into manufacturing the things you buy from China, which is basically everything, is counted as China's carbon emission. There is no us and them in climate change, the entire world's economy is connected, and everything who lives a modern lifestyle is responsible for it. Which is why I roll my eyes when someone praise Bhutan for being Carbon negative. well of course they are, they don't make anything. Their consumerism, however small is counted on the industrialized nations they import from.
This is so true. Most of the west outsource their manufacture here in China. Not to mention carbon footprint in China is relatively lower than USA by lot. People complain about this, but they wont complain about cheaper product
Agree with that, also in terms of emission per capita, China is far lower than the US counterpart. Regardless, commitment to being carbon neutral is something applaudable. This is a path of transition from a developing country to a developed one.
I’m living in Shanghai, and it’s more and more difficult to get a license plate if you’re buying a patrol car in this city. Meanwhile you can get car loan without interest if you’re buying an electric car. You can see electric car number skyrocketed with your own naked eye on the street.
@@hammbonestyle6970 Someone explains to me what is that? I have seen it all over the UA-cam comments, but as a Chinese, I never heard of that nor do I have something like that...
What they tell you : China is the biggest polluter . What they don’t tell you : China has the largest population and is the most industrialised nation on the planet . Obviously it would be the most polluting .
True, per capita is one metric, but per square km is another metric. Averaging across a country is one way to look at it, and averaging across a smaller local region is another way to look at it.
So you can reproduce like rabbits and drain the resources to the point of killing sparrows and it is other countries' fault? Per capita, my foot. Too many people.
This video ignores one factor: China has planted a loooooot of trees. Data from NASA: From 2010 to 2017, China’s new green area is equivalent to a quarter of the Amazon rainforest (1.35 million square kilometers).
Absolutely amazing Mu Us desert has been eliminated and significant progress in Inner Mongolia Kabuqi desert. The funny western criticism is too many trees are blocking winds and slow down air circulation in Beijing, just can’t win.
Yah, what happen to Beijing sand storm? They grow new trees the cut them and grow again, officials answer to the top not to the people, which means they need to do something to please the top, growing tree is one of them, for the place that already has tree? Cut them all down and regrow with small trees, instant new tree planned.
For the west to blame China for pollution is a bit like for people in cars to blame people on public transport for occupying too much space during rush hour. While its true buses and trams takes up a lot of room, but considering how many people they carry, they are far more space efficient than any private cars.
The West should stop forcing poor naive Chinese business owners to use cheap/dirty manufacturing methods. Consumers must stop buying from these companies.
@Who Thru Poo bs, Tesla's are far more polluting that rail or public transport in China as they also move more. Rail as well it's far more efficient even if powered by fossil fuel. Airplanes also liked far more over time especially the American military. In addition to that much of the labor is also shifting in China and isn't like the US. China's labor isn't exactly cheap but it's logistics for business is much better which is why the world wants their business
@@lu_re7198 forcing? Chinese forces western companies to ditch EPA regulations. China is smart they build a Environmental regulations but don't because they benefit being manufactures of the world and soon people will start pulling factories and Chinese economy will collapse.
@kl wies BS. India has its own vaccine under development. Chinese people do not want to take the vaccine that Chinese companies are making. They have had enough deaths of kids after taking run of the mill vaccines made in China. Chinese go to foreign countries to get baby food. Imagine that! not trusting baby food sold in your country.
98% of worldwide electric bus are in China. In Shanghai, they are replacing all the bus line with modern electric bus, so many lines have already been replaced. I love these bus!
I am a Chinese, Due to the covid -19 I can't go aboard at the national holiday (7 days), So I travelled to the far west of mainland China. To my surprise (you know I am a Chinese I also been astonished), On the desert I saw hundreds of thousands wind turbines that each has 30 -40 meters height cover all over till the horizen. If not saw this, I may still think what Xi said is a dream that far from reach. But now, I think it is possible. As a Chinese I feel ashamed to what I thought before.
I am very happy about this non-biased reporting! Normally, American cable is ultra-nationalistic, however here we have a perfect example of how to describe facts and providing factual and not twisted information to the mass public. Thank you WSJ, for your great reporting!
It’s not necessarily factual, it’s that Wall Street, WSJ, and the Democratic Party are very pro-China because they are heavily invested in China. As they say, follow the money.
China pollutes farrrrrrr more carbon dioxide than the us currently does. And we’ve lowered emissions tremendously this past decade. Learn your facts please
@@911aaron west has been producing greenhouse emissions from centuries their per capita emissions are so higher entire prosperity of West is build of emissions
well yeah natural gas is a solution for now, not in 40 years lol. natural gas cuts Co2 and methane in half and most cars today can be switched over. Rather then having to produce 1 billion electric cars to replace the current cars which will take too long.
@@Tyler_255 you shouldn’t look at the possible origin of Covid u should look at who didn’t do the right polices and moves to protect their people.. I don’t see Korea complaining just u
@@Tyler_255 US can't complain as they didn't do anything to stop Covid and specially if US thinks China made the virus why they didn't also copied China's moves instead of acting like Covid wasn't real
@xox, sure. That’s what Asians believe but Americans reject it. Kishore Mahbubani talks about it In his book. Americans believe that, as a law of economics, the invisible hand always produces superior outcomes. We shall see who is right.
@527 Jetra , the West believes in singular truths. But Asian values are lot more nuanced. Asians are actually more capitalists and entrepreneurial. But their policies depends on the situation and the objectives. Kerry Brown discusses that in his academic research. If you believe in singular truths, then it’s a lot harder to reform.
One key metric which I've heard is that Solar Energy is finally competitive with oil directly, in terms of cost per unit energy, in areas like Texas. This makes China's plans significantly more achievable and unambitious than if they were to be declared 20 years ago; that is, this is going to be well within what China does best: Scaling something already achievable up to ludicrous scales, and finishing off the last problems with the technology until it is just done well. I still expect the first 10 years to be a gongshow that will cause the rest of the world to laugh; followed by the next 20 to be one where we fall silent unless we're desperate haters, because that seems to be the pattern overall.
Price for per km of EV is cheaper than petrol car years ago in china. Price for EV per 100 km might be 5-7 rmb. Some solar power plants electricity was cheaper than power plant burning coal since last year. A great success for many years efforts.
@Joe Duke I'm Chinese-Canadian actually, though I admit, I am completely operating on heuristics built from my own personal experience reading about China and hearing about it rather than direct personal experience. This said - "www.consumeraffairs.com/solar-energy/solar-vs-fossil-fuels.html" In particular: "Going solar is a money-saver in the long term, even though startup costs are higher for the consumer. Electricity from fossil fuels costs between 5 cents and 17 cents per kilowatt-hour. Solar energy costs average between 3 cents and 6 cents per kilowatt-hour and are trending down, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory." You're welcome. If I'm a democrat, then what are you anyways? Toilet paper?
That is arguable, when people do a comparison, they often do not include 24 hours coverage. Instead, they only include the total power produced. However, if you include a 24 hours coverage comparison, the cost of solar become really high due to the need to find ways to store energy for night use. Of course, people will not want you to know that, that is bad for business, that is bad for their "green" egos. You can look for existing case, for example, Germany. Germany has a wide range of energy; solar, wind, hydro, biomass, coal, oil, gas and nuclear. Their citizens are on a campaign of against nuclear and promoting renewable energy so what happen is their government give in and start building a lot of green. Their green almost cover half of their energy sources. Now, the problem arise, they do not have the mean to store energy for downtime use (night time, no wind), it was too costly. For comparison, Germany's eclectic price double their neighbors. What they did is go for the lower cost solution and that is turn back on the coal power plant at night. Did they reduce their carbon footprint much? Not really, and not only that, they increase their living cost. The only real low carbon power solution that doesn't break your wallet is actually nuclear. However, many don't trust nuclear, they afraid it will blow up and such. Funny is those are the same people that continue to use their smartphones, take cars/bus/trains, play computers etc; all these energy intensive activities and yet talk about how they want to "greenify" the world. Fun fact, France which is mainly nuclear powered has half the carbon footprint per capita than Germany. So in other words, we do have evidences that renewable power (at least current technology) don't reduce carbon footprints but the "green" egos people have preventing them from looking at facts.
There is Soo much misinformation out there. For solar China is adding multipliers by doing agrivoltaics ( raising sheep or berries under solar in the desert) and using SODIUM batteries instead of lithium.
Western business: Make something, sell them with premium price, ban other competitors. Chinese business: Make something, scale it, make it dirt cheap. Which one do you prefer?
Don't use that kind of logic... usa vs ch The whole world is polluting... I just hope someday both the usa and china goverments join together to clean up the pacific ocean. Can you imagine that for 2030? That'd be awesome
@@zCaptainz Trump is already working on the pacific ocean while China is building artificial islands and overfishing (they need to go to South Africa to fish becasue there is no more fish near their coast.
FreeStyle it goes both ways. Where does us ships fish by the way? How long and how much has US fishery been getting their fish before they became the mouthpiece for opposing overfishing? With all this China blaming, to be fair we need to look at the grand total from past 100 years of industrialized nations fishing amount. Keep in mind for much of the past century, China has had a population equivalent to rest of the industrialized world combined.
its not good in 40 years while they pollute like crazy, not proper waste management, fishing the oceans empty, and building dams that mess up the Eco-systems in indo-china. By the time its 2060 China would have done irreversible damage to the world and it wouldn't matter if they were carbon free.
CO² production per capita and year: USA: 15.52 tonnes Germany: 9.44 tonnes China: 7.38 tonnes Not to forget that China produces a lot for CO² countries...which means that its very own CO² production is below these 7.38 tonnes...and the CO² of the countries it produces for is higher.
There is still bias at the end. thanks for China firms, cost of solar energy were dropped dramatically which allowed more countries to utilize solar energies in acceptable price
Most people don't actually know that the best time to invest is during a crisis/ recession investing a $1000 now can turn you into a millionaire sometime later.
@@avaevie7813 This is 100% true, self made millionaire like warren buffet and bill gates never made it depending on paycheck neither were they salary owners I think investment should be on every wise and individual list and currently all of it is online in a month or how you'd be ecstatic about the decision you've made.
@@catchgenerics8667 they emit more today because of there industrialization the US has polluted far more than China in total. It’s both of these countries fault we can’t just blame one side. We need to se global effort to see an actual change. Good Job china for stepping up
One thing that I think is remarkable in the near future is the mass construction of ultra-high-voltage electricity transmission horizontally across China. This truly utilize the spare energy (solar or wind) from provinces like Xinjiang, meanwhile it would boost the local economy.
I sat at a dinner table once with some Chinese colleagues. The topics of conversations they chose to talk about all had to do with business, technology, start-ups, figuring out how to make money. Compare that to an average American dinner table conversation where the topic was mainly on wearing masks or the next hot Netflix show or some new social media influencer, and you start to get a picture of which side is more motivated to win.
@@Tyler_255 You created so many fake news to smear China. I just debated down one of them. You said "muslim concentration camps". Pls prove your statement by: 1, Name and location of just ONE camp; 2, Source of your information and hyperlink. If you can not answer my question, pls stop creating fake news to smear China.
The advantage that China has is that its leaders don’t need to constantly compete with the opposite party, and can actually focus on improving the country.
what an American centric comment. America fails to make any meaningful progress on the climate not because it's a democracy (it arguably isn't) but because it's a sick and or dying democracy. there are democracies which are far healthier than the US which are almost carbon neutral & which are making even faster progress than china
@@afgor1088 a working democracy does NOT focus on just beating the other party. Yes, America’s democracy is broken. I’m not saying the problem is democracy, I’m saying that the American democracy is very ineffective.
Since 2019, the cost of solar has become lower than any other form of energy generation. The economies of scale will continue to decrease this cost, making all other energy sources simply obsolete in the next decade or so.
@victor smith what? we are using more natural gas then oil. Natural gas is a solution for now because we can actually cut Co2 and methane in half within only 5 years instead of nonsense over 40 years. Also many places cant use solar because they don't have enough sun light during the winter times and the super magic batteries don't exist yet to store enough energy. Its why Germany burns brown coal because solar and wind is not suitable.
@victor smith and? I already told you natural gas is a better short term solution. We cant let China flood the market with their cheap garbage. Have you been sleeping these last few years? They would destroy our solar panel manufacturing. We couldn't compete with their slave labor at those low prices. So you would hand over that business to china as well. Think man think. You don't want China to have a monopoly over everything.
@victor smith No position in your arguing with Orionide, merely to mention, battery is not the only way to store energy. Now the the large scale is still with water.
China shouldn't supply a cheap products for the wolrd, pollution happen in china, damaging happen in China, slavered labors happen in China, most profit earned by importers, not Chinese! Blaming China for polution sounds rediculous, Chinese norman citizens suffered a lot for that, Plz turn these supply chain to other countries!
The US has 1/4 of China’s population and yet emits an amount equal to half of China’s carbon emissions. Wouldn’t it make more sense if instead of 15% of the world’s carbon emissions we emitted 7.5% since our population is 1/4 of China’s? China is a massive industrial country, but for us, all 330 million of our citizens need cars to do the most basic things. If anything, we are the ones that need to fix the emissions because China is already doing that.
Keep in mind Paris climate accord said that the us should be net zero by 2050 this is why America pulled out because it would have been business suicide that is also why Australia and the UK are considering pulling out
2060 is way too late, but at the same time, I have a larger faith in China will actually reach the total than in the dysfunctional western "democracies". Here in Sweden, the new fascist-backed right wing government has slashed spending on climate and environmental mitigation and even on preparedness for the changing climate. Even domestic emissions are now projected to go up in Sweden. While at the same time we also but all of our stuff from China and Bangladesh.
Guess most people in comment section don’t know how the ant forest have already turned a couple of big deserts in China into grassland. Things are getting done while people still debating and arguing.
If this was pushed in the US, the market would never allow it because the government has little to no control over the market and the opposing parties would just grab on to that
Ranking of carbon emissions per capita in major countries(ton/per person in 1 year): Canada 16.55 USA 15.32 S.Korea 13.02 Russia 12.04 Japan 10.49 Germany 9.91 China 9.21 Iran 8.23 S.Africa 8.10 Italy 6.02 UK 5.64 Turkey 5.16 France 5.13 Mexico 3.80 Brazil 2.35 Indonesia 1.89 India 1.79 China now has made the statement of carbon neutral, these countries especially have higher carbon emissions per capita should catch up.
Its just a statement. None of those countries send fishing trawlers across the globe to empty the oceans, Or build dams that destroy eco-systems in other countries. Maybe they will be carbon neutral in 40 years but they sure would have destroyed everything around them to get there.
@@orionide4032 You just easily accept and believe trashes those medias dump to your brain. China made and sold most EV in the world. China has the largest hydropower, wind power and solar power generations in the world. China planted at least 1.72 millions square kilometers forests in recent 7 decades, that's as big as 4.8 times whole Germany's territory, or more than half of India.
@Jeff jj The only thing you can find is their planned economy which is only what communist countries do. The great leap forward and the war on sparrows didn't end very well for their planned economies then. Its just nonsense on paper.
as of now the earliest industrialized nations pledges to become carbon neutral by 2050. It maybe too late, but we'll survive it's just a lot of people in Africa and India is going to suffer the most from shortage of food caused by extreme weathers, and heatwaves.
If they succeed then India will be the next country, that comes under scrutiny & unlike China India has got spread out population, so let's see how the climate change control project goes...
Wrong all countries should be under scrutiny as it's a global issue. Also if you look at a more complete picture, it's the US that should be under scrutiny most as according to 2018 ranking by ucsusa.org is #2 biggest polluter in the world after China while #4 at 16.56T per capita while China is far lower at #13 at 7.05. It's really up to the 2 super power to set an example especially US since it's already industrialized while China is still developing. But instead it's China that's taking the initiative.
@@orionide4032 nah that project won't be able to achieve 10 times more energy. We need cold fusion tech. That could scale very fast. Before that thorium reactors will scale very fast to achieve 2-3 times energy output than currently.
If Al Gore had become president we would have been the leader in all the green technologies. But we are now also-ran. The US believes that green is a cost whereas China believes that green is an opportunity.
Regarding energy sources, at the moment: Wind, Solar, Geothermal and Hydro are the only "real renewables". Nuclear is a huge question... Biomass energy is polluting, but sometimes labelled as renewable... Tidal waves and tribo-electric movements are still in the pre-development phase... Graphene circuits looks awesome but still way too early to tell... Looking forward to what other sources of renewable energy people will develop in the coming years.
Plenty of options have rises for decades. Though, the invention still needs time to be figured out and integrated as well. If we refer to how much technology has thriven rapidly in this recent years, I believe the practical solution of renewable energy will surface soon.
Nuclear fission is not renewable, but it is by far the most efficient for of energy in terms of mass and volumetric capacity, in addition to being much more abundant than fossil fuels (both Thorium and Uranium).
You knw I’m more impressed by what a country has done and not the promises + WSJ now has a office in China so these pro-china videos will be a regular thing.
Sorry but you’re an idiot. The US has been steadily decreasing it’s greenhouse emissions by giving incentives to private companies to build up renewable energy sources.
even though mostly informative notice how the tone of the video still tries to antagonize China? anti China propaganda is so deeply rooted in western media even making informative videos on climate change cannot be forgiven😂
There were plenty of other presidents and government officials in the US that could of started a carbon tax and slow global warming. But they don’t thanks lobbying for destroying the world so the rich can add a few zeros to there bank account
@@ldIezz sadly true. Trump is always about „the system is rigged“ what’s actually rigged is lobbying. It was supposed to be so the people could voice their opinions. What’s actually happening is just big companies influencing the market in usually bad ways it seems
@@MrLOLSager Why would you care about Trump? When in fact he is not taking money from anybody and he will be long dead in 2060. Also only has been a president for 4 years. Again 2060.
Truth is, the emissions there still rise rapidly every single year. Polluters are polluting more and consumers are consuming more. Global governments focusing on carbon dioxide is still too little when it means the production of other greenhouse gases rise. This is a step in the right direction but it is at the same time only the first step of an endless marathon.
To people criticizing China, needs to remember, the pollutions that goes into manufacturing the things you buy from China, which is basically everything, is counted as China's carbon emission.
There is no us and them in climate change, the entire world's economy is connected, and everything who lives a modern lifestyle is responsible for it.
Which is why I roll my eyes when someone praise Bhutan for being Carbon negative. well of course they are, they don't make anything. Their consumerism, however small is counted on the industrialized nations they import from.
This is so true. Most of the west outsource their manufacture here in China. Not to mention carbon footprint in China is relatively lower than USA by lot. People complain about this, but they wont complain about cheaper product
Let's all countries in this together then, all 2060!
Agree with that, also in terms of emission per capita, China is far lower than the US counterpart. Regardless, commitment to being carbon neutral is something applaudable. This is a path of transition from a developing country to a developed one.
You are on point with this
@Heather Larson we call this double standards in China
I’m living in Shanghai, and it’s more and more difficult to get a license plate if you’re buying a patrol car in this city. Meanwhile you can get car loan without interest if you’re buying an electric car. You can see electric car number skyrocketed with your own naked eye on the street.
will that effect your credit score ?
@@hammbonestyle6970 Someone explains to me what is that? I have seen it all over the UA-cam comments, but as a Chinese, I never heard of that nor do I have something like that...
@@hammbonestyle6970 haha，it is a trick to make a fool of some people.If you know chinese words in these pictures,you will not ask this question. LOL
@@hammbonestyle6970 westerners are brainwashed so badly. i go to china every year and have never seen such a thing as social credit.
@@ericwolf3230 有的，如果你买房需要贷款的话，银行会查这个，就是征信。但并不是西媒描述的那样，他们就是瞎造谣，说得好像中国是黑镜里描述的那样，西方也有，这个征信，中国应该也是从西方学来的，他们从来不说。
What they tell you : China is the biggest polluter .
What they don’t tell you : China has the largest population and is the most industrialised nation on the planet . Obviously it would be the most polluting .
At the past when US is the biggest polluter, China didn't even blame them. Now they blaming China about it. Smh
True, per capita is one metric, but per square km is another metric. Averaging across a country is one way to look at it, and averaging across a smaller local region is another way to look at it.
So you can reproduce like rabbits and drain the resources to the point of killing sparrows and it is other countries' fault? Per capita, my foot. Too many people.
"China has the largest population" do THEY have to tell you this? is it not common knowledge?
@@godofwar4276 China had the largest population for centuries, stop talking nonsense
This video ignores one factor: China has planted a loooooot of trees.
Data from NASA: From 2010 to 2017, China’s new green area is equivalent to a quarter of the Amazon rainforest (1.35 million square kilometers).
Absolutely amazing Mu Us desert has been eliminated and significant progress in Inner Mongolia Kabuqi desert. The funny western criticism is too many trees are blocking winds and slow down air circulation in Beijing, just can’t win.
Yah, what happen to Beijing sand storm? They grow new trees the cut them and grow again, officials answer to the top not to the people, which means they need to do something to please the top, growing tree is one of them, for the place that already has tree? Cut them all down and regrow with small trees, instant new tree planned.
This comment ignores the fact that China uses more than twice the amount of water than the USA
@@chozer1 but u ignore that China has 3 times US population.
@@yd9434 3 times the population and 5 times the pollution lvl
For the west to blame China for pollution is a bit like for people in cars to blame people on public transport for occupying too much space during rush hour.
While its true buses and trams takes up a lot of room, but considering how many people they carry, they are far more space efficient than any private cars.
The West should stop forcing poor naive Chinese business owners to use cheap/dirty manufacturing methods. Consumers must stop buying from these companies.
@Who Thru Poo bs, Tesla's are far more polluting that rail or public transport in China as they also move more. Rail as well it's far more efficient even if powered by fossil fuel. Airplanes also liked far more over time especially the American military.
In addition to that much of the labor is also shifting in China and isn't like the US. China's labor isn't exactly cheap but it's logistics for business is much better which is why the world wants their business
@@lu_re7198 forcing? Chinese forces western companies to ditch EPA regulations. China is smart they build a Environmental regulations but don't because they benefit being manufactures of the world and soon people will start pulling factories and Chinese economy will collapse.
They are twice the amount of co2 than the whole rest of the world. Don’t try to defend it commie
@@felixfungle-bung4688 save it
according to “China expert” in US
China has been collapsing for 20years
I believe China can do this. They are always at the forefront of tech.
meh
America and the Industrialized west: our pollution happened mostly in the past so it doesn’t count 🤪
China could have learnt from the West but we all see what China did
A hundred years from now, the present becomes the past so you mean what happens today doesn't count??? LOL, this idiotic reasoning is for the birds.
@@Sakuyushi --- really? You mean China should give up industrialization so the west stays rich and China remains poor.
yeah, those ancient CO2 molecules perhaps will stay happily till the end of earth.
it doesn't... How many trees were grown since the industrial era.
And the US made no promise by now.
They are protecting their live style------never turn off the light and AC.
美国退出了巴黎气候协议
but they can scapegoat China for all their failures.
yeah america doesn't need to make fake promises we have been ACTUALLY lowering carbon emissions for over a decade almost 2 decades.
@@gpain616 If Americans learned to turn off AC/light when leave a room, the problem is solved. LOL
@kl wies BS. India has its own vaccine under development. Chinese people do not want to take the vaccine that Chinese companies are making. They have had enough deaths of kids after taking run of the mill vaccines made in China. Chinese go to foreign countries to get baby food. Imagine that! not trusting baby food sold in your country.
98% of worldwide electric bus are in China.
In Shanghai, they are replacing all the bus line with modern electric bus, so many lines have already been replaced. I love these bus!
Finally see a non-biased English report about china. Keep up the great work WSJ!
Because it is china they could probably do this
I am a Chinese, Due to the covid -19 I can't go aboard at the national holiday (7 days), So I travelled to the far west of mainland China. To my surprise (you know I am a Chinese I also been astonished), On the desert I saw hundreds of thousands wind turbines that each has 30 -40 meters height cover all over till the horizen. If not saw this, I may still think what Xi said is a dream that far from reach. But now, I think it is possible. As a Chinese I feel ashamed to what I thought before.
Were you in the glorious province of Xinjiang (Uyghurstan)😍😍 that place is blissfully tranquil atm😉
Isn't using VPN for youtube a crime in China?
@@aryayudha6414 not for the politically stable people. International students, multinational businesses, all use VPN. GFW is for the mass majority.
@@manvirsv did the genie from that lamp you paid 40k for tell you that?
@Heather Larson i thought the same about Russia, mafia everywhere from Hollywood movie
I am very happy about this non-biased reporting! Normally, American cable is ultra-nationalistic, however here we have a perfect example of how to describe facts and providing factual and not twisted information to the mass public. Thank you WSJ, for your great reporting!
You sure American cable is ultra-nationalistic?😂in any way I think its the opposite!
It is just Wallstreet wants the money flow to China on some beautiful promise. It is all about money.
A video like this from mainstream media is super rare. You probably only get to see one once a year.
It’s not necessarily factual, it’s that Wall Street, WSJ, and the Democratic Party are very pro-China because they are heavily invested in China. As they say, follow the money.
Naruto Uzumaki that must be some really strong Kool-Aid.
Meanwhile, US is still betting big on fracking
China pollutes farrrrrrr more carbon dioxide than the us currently does. And we’ve lowered emissions tremendously this past decade. Learn your facts please
@@911aaron I never said they weren't. U got reading comprehension issues?
@dennisestrada75 Leadership won't change. It's China
@@911aaron west has been producing greenhouse emissions from centuries
their per capita emissions are so higher
entire prosperity of West is build of emissions
well yeah natural gas is a solution for now, not in 40 years lol. natural gas cuts Co2 and methane in half and most cars today can be switched over. Rather then having to produce 1 billion electric cars to replace the current cars which will take too long.
The US economy is going to be left behind if we don’t start investing in renewable sources of energy
@@Tyler_255 "china caused corona and now barely affected by it" yet you still don't realize how US is left behind in 21st century
@@inglam Because of China Virus
@@Tyler_255 you shouldn’t look at the possible origin of Covid u should look at who didn’t do the right polices and moves to protect their people.. I don’t see Korea complaining just u
@@Tyler_255 US can't complain as they didn't do anything to stop Covid and specially if US thinks China made the virus why they didn't also copied China's moves instead of acting like Covid wasn't real
With the way things are going, in another decade, China will probably be the largest economy in the world ahead of the US
China has a strong central government. They can achieve neutral carbon emissions with their commitments.
say that until its done
@@jennyqzq Actually the subsidies have really discouraged CO2 production, so you can see it happening currently
Aaditya Raj Bhattarai say that when it is half of what is now. Typical communist trick to gain funding from west by changing a bit on the surface
@@jennyqzq Well they are doing now. what is the reason to criticise. Start criticising if they dont do it.
Aaditya Raj Bhattarai stop praising until they did substantial work
This move will push innovation to levels not seen yet.
But, but, but government planning doesn’t work. Remember? Only the invisible hand can innovate.
@xox, sure. That’s what Asians believe but Americans reject it. Kishore Mahbubani talks about it In his book. Americans believe that, as a law of economics, the invisible hand always produces superior outcomes. We shall see who is right.
@527 Jetra , the West believes in singular truths. But Asian values are lot more nuanced. Asians are actually more capitalists and entrepreneurial. But their policies depends on the situation and the objectives. Kerry Brown discusses that in his academic research.
If you believe in singular truths, then it’s a lot harder to reform.
One key metric which I've heard is that Solar Energy is finally competitive with oil directly, in terms of cost per unit energy, in areas like Texas. This makes China's plans significantly more achievable and unambitious than if they were to be declared 20 years ago; that is, this is going to be well within what China does best: Scaling something already achievable up to ludicrous scales, and finishing off the last problems with the technology until it is just done well. I still expect the first 10 years to be a gongshow that will cause the rest of the world to laugh; followed by the next 20 to be one where we fall silent unless we're desperate haters, because that seems to be the pattern overall.
Price for per km of EV is cheaper than petrol car years ago in china. Price for EV per 100 km might be 5-7 rmb. Some solar power plants electricity was cheaper than power plant burning coal since last year. A great success for many years efforts.
@Joe Duke I'm Chinese-Canadian actually, though I admit, I am completely operating on heuristics built from my own personal experience reading about China and hearing about it rather than direct personal experience. This said - "www.consumeraffairs.com/solar-energy/solar-vs-fossil-fuels.html"
In particular: "Going solar is a money-saver in the long term, even though startup costs are higher for the consumer. Electricity from fossil fuels costs between 5 cents and 17 cents per kilowatt-hour. Solar energy costs average between 3 cents and 6 cents per kilowatt-hour and are trending down, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory."
You're welcome.
If I'm a democrat, then what are you anyways? Toilet paper?
That is arguable, when people do a comparison, they often do not include 24 hours coverage. Instead, they only include the total power produced. However, if you include a 24 hours coverage comparison, the cost of solar become really high due to the need to find ways to store energy for night use. Of course, people will not want you to know that, that is bad for business, that is bad for their "green" egos.
You can look for existing case, for example, Germany. Germany has a wide range of energy; solar, wind, hydro, biomass, coal, oil, gas and nuclear. Their citizens are on a campaign of against nuclear and promoting renewable energy so what happen is their government give in and start building a lot of green. Their green almost cover half of their energy sources. Now, the problem arise, they do not have the mean to store energy for downtime use (night time, no wind), it was too costly. For comparison, Germany's eclectic price double their neighbors. What they did is go for the lower cost solution and that is turn back on the coal power plant at night. Did they reduce their carbon footprint much? Not really, and not only that, they increase their living cost.
The only real low carbon power solution that doesn't break your wallet is actually nuclear. However, many don't trust nuclear, they afraid it will blow up and such. Funny is those are the same people that continue to use their smartphones, take cars/bus/trains, play computers etc; all these energy intensive activities and yet talk about how they want to "greenify" the world.
Fun fact, France which is mainly nuclear powered has half the carbon footprint per capita than Germany. So in other words, we do have evidences that renewable power (at least current technology) don't reduce carbon footprints but the "green" egos people have preventing them from looking at facts.
Exactly. same with coronavirus where the world watched and laughed and even accused China of lying and there comes the pattern you mentioned
There is Soo much misinformation out there. For solar China is adding multipliers by doing agrivoltaics ( raising sheep or berries under solar in the desert) and using SODIUM batteries instead of lithium.
Western business: Make something, sell them with premium price, ban other competitors.
Chinese business: Make something, scale it, make it dirt cheap.
Which one do you prefer?
western business, it's called "Kicking away the ladder"
I have a question: which country held the mantle of "the biggest polluter in the world" before China? And for how long?
US for last century
Don't use that kind of logic... usa vs ch
The whole world is polluting...
I just hope someday both the usa and china goverments join together to clean up the pacific ocean.
Can you imagine that for 2030?
That'd be awesome
@@zCaptainz Trump is already working on the pacific ocean while China is building artificial islands and overfishing (they need to go to South Africa to fish becasue there is no more fish near their coast.
@@Joso997 yeah they are working to arms taiwan and hongkong and send their fleet there to provoke China 😂, just joking😂
FreeStyle it goes both ways. Where does us ships fish by the way? How long and how much has US fishery been getting their fish before they became the mouthpiece for opposing overfishing? With all this China blaming, to be fair we need to look at the grand total from past 100 years of industrialized nations fishing amount. Keep in mind for much of the past century, China has had a population equivalent to rest of the industrialized world combined.
Are there really no more bad news about China that WSJ can report about?
Hehehe
40 years is pretty bad
让人有点不习惯呢！
@@orionide4032 Not actually. This is supposed to go down logarithmically, greater reduction at first and brushing off the edge at end
hahaha
In my hometown in China, a village with population of hundreds, there are wind farms on the hills which were built recently.
I hope for the good of the planet that this goal is achieved
its not good in 40 years while they pollute like crazy, not proper waste management, fishing the oceans empty, and building dams that mess up the Eco-systems in indo-china. By the time its 2060 China would have done irreversible damage to the world and it wouldn't matter if they were carbon free.
finally some fair unbiased news about the world
CO² production per capita and year:
USA: 15.52 tonnes
Germany: 9.44 tonnes
China: 7.38 tonnes
Not to forget that China produces a lot for CO² countries...which means that its very own CO² production is below these 7.38 tonnes...and the CO² of the countries it produces for is higher.
There is still bias at the end. thanks for China firms, cost of solar energy were dropped dramatically which allowed more countries to utilize solar energies in acceptable price
God bless China 🇨🇳✊✊✊✊✊
investment is the key to achieving success with the current pandemic slowing down so many business.
I totally agree with you it has been an eye opening experience for a lot of people.
I think the pandemic has taught people the importance of multiple streams of income, unfortunately of having a job donsn't mean security.
Most people don't actually know that the best time to invest is during a crisis/ recession investing a $1000 now can turn you into a millionaire sometime later.
Investing plays a very major role. No matter how large or how little your investment earning for you
@@avaevie7813 This is 100% true, self made millionaire like warren buffet and bill gates never made it depending on paycheck neither were they salary owners I think investment should be on every wise and individual list and currently all of it is online in a month or how you'd be ecstatic about the decision you've made.
Good now it’s time for the US to follow
No it is not fair, the world is in this all together
China has more greenhouse emissions than any country on the planet. It’s China’s fault. They should be doing this and it’s actually way overdue.
@@catchgenerics8667 they emit more today because of there industrialization the US has polluted far more than China in total. It’s both of these countries fault we can’t just blame one side. We need to se global effort to see an actual change. Good Job china for stepping up
40 years dumb dumb
i live in Shenzhen, and all buses, taxis are electric cars.
cool I wish it was like this in Australia. Our PM loves coal
One thing that I think is remarkable in the near future is the mass construction of ultra-high-voltage electricity transmission horizontally across China. This truly utilize the spare energy (solar or wind) from provinces like Xinjiang, meanwhile it would boost the local economy.
Yes China Can.
I never thought I'd say this
But I'm actually proud of china
Considering the cost of green energy continue to go down overtime, this goal might be easier to achieve than people think.
I sat at a dinner table once with some Chinese colleagues. The topics of conversations they chose to talk about all had to do with business, technology, start-ups, figuring out how to make money. Compare that to an average American dinner table conversation where the topic was mainly on wearing masks or the next hot Netflix show or some new social media influencer, and you start to get a picture of which side is more motivated to win.
Despite the economic crisis and the rate of unemployment now is the best time to invest
Crypto is the future 🚀
That won't bother you if you trade with a Professional like Mrs Julian Bezos
I heard her trad'ing strategies are really good
@@sandyderek8931 Yeah
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China is a model that other countries should learn from it.
@ ooof u just desecrated him
@@Tyler_255 You created so many fake news to smear China. I just debated down one of them. You said "muslim concentration camps". Pls prove your statement by: 1, Name and location of just ONE camp; 2, Source of your information and hyperlink. If you can not answer my question, pls stop creating fake news to smear China.
@@Tyler_255 why do you people never have substantive rebuttals?
@@Tyler_255 What happened to the Muslim in France ?
Short answer: No and we should’t.
If China says its gonna get something done, it most likely will. The country is run by engineers, not politicians.
Fun fact, people who comment haven't watched the hole video yet
Fun fact, people who comment early are likely to commit more spelling mistakes due to hurry.
Fun fact, people who click this video are not for watching this video but only for the comments
The advantage that China has is that its leaders don’t need to constantly compete with the opposite party, and can actually focus on improving the country.
what an American centric comment. America fails to make any meaningful progress on the climate not because it's a democracy (it arguably isn't) but because it's a sick and or dying democracy.
there are democracies which are far healthier than the US which are almost carbon neutral & which are making even faster progress than china
@@afgor1088 a working democracy does NOT focus on just beating the other party. Yes, America’s democracy is broken. I’m not saying the problem is democracy, I’m saying that the American democracy is very ineffective.
China is incredible. Go China 😄✊🇧🇷🇨🇳
Since 2019, the cost of solar has become lower than any other form of energy generation. The economies of scale will continue to decrease this cost, making all other energy sources simply obsolete in the next decade or so.
@victor smith We need Biden to win or we're doomed.
@victor smith what? we are using more natural gas then oil. Natural gas is a solution for now because we can actually cut Co2 and methane in half within only 5 years instead of nonsense over 40 years. Also many places cant use solar because they don't have enough sun light during the winter times and the super magic batteries don't exist yet to store enough energy. Its why Germany burns brown coal because solar and wind is not suitable.
@victor smith and? I already told you natural gas is a better short term solution. We cant let China flood the market with their cheap garbage. Have you been sleeping these last few years? They would destroy our solar panel manufacturing. We couldn't compete with their slave labor at those low prices. So you would hand over that business to china as well. Think man think. You don't want China to have a monopoly over everything.
@victor smith No position in your arguing with Orionide, merely to mention, battery is not the only way to store energy. Now the the large scale is still with water.
China shouldn't supply a cheap products for the wolrd, pollution happen in china, damaging happen in China, slavered labors happen in China, most profit earned by importers, not Chinese! Blaming China for polution sounds rediculous, Chinese norman citizens suffered a lot for that, Plz turn these supply chain to other countries!
100% agree with you.
nonono, chinese will suffer if there is no demand from abroad.
@@刘杨梓 Yes, we don't want your cheap garbage anymore.
The US has 1/4 of China’s population and yet emits an amount equal to half of China’s carbon emissions. Wouldn’t it make more sense if instead of 15% of the world’s carbon emissions we emitted 7.5% since our population is 1/4 of China’s? China is a massive industrial country, but for us, all 330 million of our citizens need cars to do the most basic things. If anything, we are the ones that need to fix the emissions because China is already doing that.
Keep in mind Paris climate accord said that the us should be net zero by 2050 this is why America pulled out because it would have been business suicide that is also why Australia and the UK are considering pulling out
2060 is way too late, but at the same time, I have a larger faith in China will actually reach the total than in the dysfunctional western "democracies". Here in Sweden, the new fascist-backed right wing government has slashed spending on climate and environmental mitigation and even on preparedness for the changing climate. Even domestic emissions are now projected to go up in Sweden. While at the same time we also but all of our stuff from China and Bangladesh.
This video tells you: China is threating the world by making the clean energy so cheep!!! It so bad!
Me: What?
USA was the largest carbon emitter from 1850 to 2009 .
Have you seen China's massive panda shaped solar farms? 🐼
4:18
I can understand why Taiwan island isn't shown but where is Hainan island?
US is pretty bad at geography.
Guess most people in comment section don’t know how the ant forest have already turned a couple of big deserts in China into grassland. Things are getting done while people still debating and arguing.
@Fresh Turkey it’s called replanting lol
@Fresh Turkey umm that’s pretty much the same thing
@Fresh Turkey We do that here in Canada too but we see that as a good thing replanting trees after you've cut them down 🤷♂️🤦♂️
If this was pushed in the US, the market would never allow it because the government has little to no control over the market and the opposing parties would just grab on to that
Ranking of carbon emissions per capita in major countries(ton/per person in 1 year):
Canada 16.55
USA 15.32
S.Korea 13.02
Russia 12.04
Japan 10.49
Germany 9.91
China 9.21
Iran 8.23
S.Africa 8.10
Italy 6.02
UK 5.64
Turkey 5.16
France 5.13
Mexico 3.80
Brazil 2.35
Indonesia 1.89
India 1.79
China now has made the statement of carbon neutral, these countries especially have higher carbon emissions per capita should catch up.
Its just a statement. None of those countries send fishing trawlers across the globe to empty the oceans, Or build dams that destroy eco-systems in other countries. Maybe they will be carbon neutral in 40 years but they sure would have destroyed everything around them to get there.
@@orionide4032 You just easily accept and believe trashes those medias dump to your brain. China made and sold most EV in the world. China has the largest hydropower, wind power and solar power generations in the world. China planted at least 1.72 millions square kilometers forests in recent 7 decades, that's as big as 4.8 times whole Germany's territory, or more than half of India.
TBH, I have more confidence in China meeting its target compared to say....the US.
Teacher: Where is everything made in?
Me: China
Teacher: what's not made in China?
me: childen
Teacher: where are they made?
Me: va-China
@老外艾迈德 Hey hey, where I am at least, we're juvenile enough to find it funny! Heh
Hahhahahahahahahaha
must be very nice to have someone tell you every thing that you like and want.
利不独享，谋不可众，中国治世，天人合一，方为世界正道
别做梦了。
@@ditsygirl5409 梦里没有你
@@ChinaDiyly 中共简直就是黑社会，人家马云说错话就受责罚，我们人生不想像大陆人这样，连实话都不能说，只能说一些吹捧中共的废话。
@@ditsygirl5409你什么话都能说吗？你试过吗？没试过的话现在试试，好吗
@@ditsygirl5409 你觉得马云会那么蠢吗？在紧急关头的时候突然间出来抨击庞大的银行系统。因果反了。
况且马云那上百倍的杠杆肯定不让过的。
Love the Minneapolis cameo! ❤️
CHINA is Smart when it comes to growing an ECONOMY
China is indeed smart if they can profit from the global demand for green energy in the further.
Since 1990 China per capita greenhouse emissions have increased 251%. The US has decreased 24%.
@@Jake-rs9nq Either you're wrong or the US EPA is.
@@jdavis6650 I misread your comment as claiming Chinese per capita emissions fell by 251%, rather than rising by 251%. That number is correct.
@@Jake-rs9nq Have a great day Jake
Go ahead, China. 👍
Almighty God bless everyone in the Global World 🌎
I am VERY Sceptical!
Try research on your own try decided yourself I do this all the time
@Jeff jj The only thing you can find is their planned economy which is only what communist countries do. The great leap forward and the war on sparrows didn't end very well for their planned economies then. Its just nonsense on paper.
@@orionide4032 Oh OK. Feels great bashing Soviet Union. Now get back to 21th century.
the reporting forgets one thing : to plant new forests, to absorb carbon.
Hold your breath 38 years! 😹
Alain, if we bring back our supply chains in these shores this might be possible sooner.
Really short time for the Chinese tho, they make 100years plans often
@@asdfghjkl92213 They sort of don't... Five and ten year plans, in this current political system yes. But they don't have any known year 2100 plan.
@@asdfghjkl92213 planned economies is only done by one political philosophy and that is communism.
If China say it they do it.
2060!!! Every country should have a policy for 2025, else the earth will be screwed
Lol. Good luck. Even EU countries aren’t able to do it
as of now the earliest industrialized nations pledges to become carbon neutral by 2050. It maybe too late, but we'll survive it's just a lot of people in Africa and India is going to suffer the most from shortage of food caused by extreme weathers, and heatwaves.
Does your country have a policy for 2060? or earlier?
@@TheZachary86 so EU countries are your benchmark?
is that bladerunner soundtrack back there?
Good, about time. When I was in Beijing 2010 all I remember was smog covering the sky!!!
that's a long time ago ,china have changed a lot
@@dokingjonson6173 only thanks to the lock downs have the skies cleared up... But as you can see from measurements, c02 has spikes again.
it improved a lot. although long way to go. aqicn.org/city/beijing/ you can have a look at Air quality historical data (2014 - 2020).
@@pass3d Great demostration
It's an impressive goal, but still only a goal.
"President of china" can we really call a dictator a president?
He was elected so i think you can call him a president
Yes.
A dictator emperor hes going to be president for life
With 100% percent Yes for voting and unlimited term.
That's what Trump would like to be known as too.
The average of CO2 emission per head in China is much lower than US, UK, French.. remember, they have 1.4 billions people.
If they succeed then India will be the next country, that comes under scrutiny & unlike China India has got spread out population, so let's see how the climate change control project goes...
India isn't exactly a developed nation, and it still needs the natural resources to develop. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Wrong all countries should be under scrutiny as it's a global issue. Also if you look at a more complete picture, it's the US that should be under scrutiny most as according to 2018 ranking by ucsusa.org is #2 biggest polluter in the world after China while #4 at 16.56T per capita while China is far lower at #13 at 7.05. It's really up to the 2 super power to set an example especially US since it's already industrialized while China is still developing. But instead it's China that's taking the initiative.
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Do you dare to talk about co2 per capita?
More power to China.this is something they can pull off easily knowing how hard working and determined chinese are
By 2060 we will be using 10 times more energy
Which is why nuclear is the only answer for a "carbon neutral" future.
@@orionide4032 yes specifically cold fusion if possible
@@amitcarbyne3635 Well, lets see how the big project in France will turn out.
@@orionide4032 nah that project won't be able to achieve 10 times more energy. We need cold fusion tech. That could scale very fast. Before that thorium reactors will scale very fast to achieve 2-3 times energy output than currently.
You didn't mention the hydropower of china..which is the largest renewable energy source in China
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If Al Gore had become president we would have been the leader in all the green technologies. But we are now also-ran. The US believes that green is a cost whereas China believes that green is an opportunity.
Nio stock now
My fellow 🎯🎯
Regarding energy sources, at the moment:
Wind, Solar, Geothermal and Hydro are the only "real renewables".
Nuclear is a huge question...
Biomass energy is polluting, but sometimes labelled as renewable...
Tidal waves and tribo-electric movements are still in the pre-development phase...
Graphene circuits looks awesome but still way too early to tell...
Looking forward to what other sources of renewable energy people will develop in the coming years.
Plenty of options have rises for decades. Though, the invention still needs time to be figured out and integrated as well. If we refer to how much technology has thriven rapidly in this recent years, I believe the practical solution of renewable energy will surface soon.
Nuclear fission is not renewable, but it is by far the most efficient for of energy in terms of mass and volumetric capacity, in addition to being much more abundant than fossil fuels (both Thorium and Uranium).
Only in homogeneous countries will this will work.
- Truth
Imagine trusting China not ironically
@Beck W You guys don't trust anyone. None of your neighbors or anyone in the world.
You knw I’m more impressed by what a country has done and not the promises
+ WSJ now has a office in China so these pro-china videos will be a regular thing.
Think about why WSJ doesn't have office in other countries? There has to be a reason why they choose China.
@@yaoxiao4636 I don’t know. You tell me
oh man another indian heart is broken. the indian economy is still powered by cow, very natural
Still better than a communist country.
It's all about money and market
Great news.
Only the US is not being responsible for the environment. Please do something.
Sorry but you’re an idiot. The US has been steadily decreasing it’s greenhouse emissions by giving incentives to private companies to build up renewable energy sources.
@@catchgenerics8667 Look at the efforts of the other nations and then look at the US, you need to wake up, idiot.
Tried electric bus in Shenzhen, the torque of the bus feels like petrol sports car.
China has a very long history of saying whatever is politically expedient if they think it will benefit them. That’s still the case.
Jeff jj false. Politicians frequently make poor decisions that harm their country so long as the poor decisions help those in power retain power.
Its paper tiger they say any to improve their image
Naruto Uzumaki lol you speak of US propaganda while all media in China is state run. You’re funny.
Naruto Uzumaki baaahahahahaha
Still burning coal
even though mostly informative notice how the tone of the video still tries to antagonize China? anti China propaganda is so deeply rooted in western media even making informative videos on climate change cannot be forgiven😂
I don't think it is antagonizing China. At least not this one.
2060 realy? Its possible in 14 years "nei let us wait 40 Years"
Its only the kids that will die by climaheating.....
Trump would hold back the entire world so much coming to changing to renewable energy and being carbon neutral
There were plenty of other presidents and government officials in the US that could of started a carbon tax and slow global warming. But they don’t thanks lobbying for destroying the world so the rich can add a few zeros to there bank account
@@ldIezz sadly true. Trump is always about „the system is rigged“ what’s actually rigged is lobbying. It was supposed to be so the people could voice their opinions. What’s actually happening is just big companies influencing the market in usually bad ways it seems
@@MrLOLSager Why would you care about Trump? When in fact he is not taking money from anybody and he will be long dead in 2060. Also only has been a president for 4 years. Again 2060.
Truth is, the emissions there still rise rapidly every single year. Polluters are polluting more and consumers are consuming more.
Global governments focusing on carbon dioxide is still too little when it means the production of other greenhouse gases rise.
This is a step in the right direction but it is at the same time only the first step of an endless marathon.
fun fact: World won't be there till 2060.
Biden's deadline is 2035 so china is not just making numbers. if they claim they will do it on time
USA topped in CO2 emissions more than 100 years 😂
HA HA HA if you know anything about China you’d know this ain’t gon happen in reality , but definitely on paper , just like their GDP figures 😉
It's a paper tiger we will just see if they really promise about doing this
Sure, why not just call climate change a hoax and ignore it all together. That'll work better for sure.
SORE LOSER!
I don't see how there will be dependency from China on electrical energy from renewables and nulesr power...
If any of you actually believe this, I have a bridge I can sell you.
we can hope we are gonna see the price for an EV is going down soon