Another Ban on the way?

[Jacob]

The Chinese? They are one of the largest contributers to CO2 output, probably in part because they are manufacturing such solar solutions and batteries. Closely followed by India. What we do in our little country has little or no impact on global warming.

Chine well down the list "per capita" but top on total output. Click the top of a column to order it: https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/
Chinese is also tops in terms of renewable energy production, and serving the rest of the world with the technology.
One dubious advantage of a totalitarian state is that govts can follow the science and impose radical solutions. They are not at the mercy of fossil fuel industry or climate change sceptics.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Chinese is also tops in terms of renewable energy production.

Yes. My friend's s.i.l. is very high up in an international mining corp. - he told us he'd just returned from China where he'd just commissioned a huge new coal mine. The sole purpose of this mine was to fuel electricity generation for a massive industrial estate ......................... whose sole purpose was to manufacture low and renewable energy products for the West. It's not all as clean as it appears.

 

[paulrbarnard]

The Chinese? They are one of the largest contributers to CO2 output, probably in part because they are manufacturing such solar solutions and batteries. Closely followed by India. What we do in our little country has little or no impact on global warming.

The classic attitude that has the biggest impact on addressing difficult problems. Add up all those little ‘no impacts’ and it becomes a very significant issue.

 

[Krome10]

The Chinese? They are one of the largest contributers to CO2 output, probably in part because they are manufacturing such solar solutions and batteries. Closely followed by India. What we do in our little country has little or no impact on global warming.

What we do in our little country is buy the goods that are made in places like China.

 

[Windows]

CO2 neutral via carbon cycle. Smoke pollution less severe in low housing density areas. I wonder if there are design or operational improvements which can be made for wood and waste burning? Low tech solutions tend to get overlooked.

Burning puts CO2 (and other gases and particulates) into the atmosphere instantly. It isn’t CO2 neutral vs much slower animal, plant, fungi, & bacterial processes where most of the carbon remains in the wood until it gets sequestered in other living & dead things.

 

[Jacob]

Burning puts CO2 (and other gases and particulates) into the atmosphere instantly.

But if there are sustainable sources growing then they are absorbing CO2 simultaneously, or even in advance.

It isn’t CO2 neutral vs much slower animal, plant, fungi, & bacterial processes where most of the carbon remains in the wood until it gets sequestered in other living & dead things.

It's a continuous cycle, not emission followed by adsorption

 

[Jacob]

The classic attitude that has the biggest impact on addressing difficult problems. Add up all those little ‘no impacts’ and it becomes a very significant issue.

Not only that but we could be setting an example and leading on the technology rather than buying chinese.