Coal bad, China meh.

Nobody should be using coal. Nobody NEEDS to use coal. Its not like you use coal for awhile then level up and it turns to renewables. Developing nations should be given/sold the necessary resources to be self sufficient.

I’m absorbing and disagreeing completely.

Saying India and China shouldnt use coal has nothing to do with the USA decarbonizing. The US has, and continues to utilize renewables at mass scale. Pretending issues in other countries don’t exist just let’s global emissions continue to climb. I’m anti coal, thats kind of like my thing.

The USA gets about 30% of its electricity via renewables. The USA gets about 14% of its electricity through coal (14% too much). China gets about 30% of its electricity via renewables and about 60% of its electricity via coal. I can call that out for being bad without it being implied I think oil is best, no? China is the current number 1 for new renewables, USA is number 2. One of the big issues that is ignored is the exorbitant amount of electricity Americans use residentially.

We are doing something… More than a quarter of our electricity comes from renewables and less than 15% come from coal (should be zero across the board across the globe). We are number 2 globally in new renewables. Behind number 1 China, a country in which 60% of electricity generated is from coal.

China is number one followed closely by the USA as number two. A larger percentage of our energy comes from renewables than china and we burn SIGNIFICANTLY less coal. 2024 we burned 411 million tons and China burned about 4.5 billion. Make the per capita argument all you want, 4.5 billion is still 4.5 billion and 411 million is still 411 million. You’re absolutely right, the demand is one of the bigger issues nobody knows what to do about.

Nobody should be burning coal. Full stop. I’m not on the right, I’m a power plant engineer. A combination of nat gas, hydro, nuclear, solar and wind needs to be used GLOBALLY. Bringing up the worst offenders doesn’t make me any less against the rampant waste the US also produces.

In 2024 India 1.3 billion tons In 2024 the U.S. burned 411 tons

I’m not laying blame I’m saying we as a species need to stop burning coal. The US shouldn’t be doing it and neither should any other country. The US as I said, has been consistently improving methodology of generation. We have not however curbed our electricity use its only increased. It will continue to increase in an incredibly dramatic fashion more with electric cars, AI data centers and residential draw. We aren’t that high in polution per capita because we are burning fuel poorly. We are high because we use such a significant amount more per person. The issue is less the fuel, more the habits we as Americans have. I’m a mechanical engineer working in stationary engineering for a large cogen power plant. Emissions have steadily gotten better and better throughout my time in the field.

India burns a bit more than double the coal the USA does. It also accounts for 75% of their electricity generation fuel. Whereas in the usa its less than 14%. So India burns less per capita but significantly more by weight and their entire grid is based on coal. Nobody should be burning coal for electric generation period. The USA has consistently gotten better and better with emissions while excuses are made for India/China. We are getting better and have been getting better, look at the amount of nat gas plants, solar fields, hydroelectric, wind and cogen facilities that have popped up in the last couple decades.

China and India need to stop burning BILLIONS of tons of coal a year. Everyone needs to stop burning coal in general.

Booooooooooooooooooooooooo

Oh yeah, you and I have a completely different idea of how the world works.

Sounds reasonable tbh.

So, if they are here illegally, what’s the argument against deportation? If they are in the process of earning citizenship, sure why not let them. But, like you said 50% came here legally. Of that 50% how many working to legitimately earn citizenship?

Are the majority of those in the center from a war torn area? I’m not heartless but I dont think completely unregulated immigration is a positive. Which feels like what is being pushed as an alternative.

Would entering the country knowingly in an illegal fashion be considered a criminal act? Assuming that crime is still considered a… crime.

Ironic India is number one with how much coal they burn.

Eh, its worked out for me…