You have to consider China has over 1 billion people and a lot of the pollution is exported from foreign companies including US corporations. China are investing (which keeps increasing every year) the most in the world in renewable energies, more than the US and European Union. Contrast that to Trump who pulled out of the Paris agreement and wanted to bring back coal even though renewable energies have been getting cheaper. I mean Trump thought wind causes cancer lmao.
- https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ieHgZTJvVZts/v1/-1x-1.png
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In terms of emissions per capita, the US, Japan and multiple european countries are worst.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita
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If we are asking who accumulated the most CO2 emissions then US and Europe is still worst than China
- https://ourworldindata.org/exports/cumulative-co2-emissions-region_v13_850x600.svg
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China are the biggest buyers of electric vehicles. When I was in China every single bus was electric. Some places in the UK are starting to buy these electric buses from BYD which is a Chinese electric car company.
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe..._markets_stock_2017_final_with_California.png
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You mentioned deforestation, well China has been known to turn deserts into lush green forests such as this one:
- https://tengrinews.kz/userdata/news/2020/news_402666/thumb_m/photo_321143.jpeg
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"How China is cleaning up its air pollution faster than the post-Industrial UK"
- http://blogs.edf.org/markets/2018/0...pollution-faster-than-the-post-industrial-uk/
It took the US over 100 years to make a single regulation to protect the environment
"The first environmental statute was the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, which has been largely superseded by the Clean Water Act (CWA). However, most current major environmental statutes, such as the federal statutes listed above, were passed in the time spanning the late 1960s through the early 1980s."
^^^ I wasn't joking when I said over 100 years.
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