India, the country best known for being notoriously corrupt to the point where it's very noticeably hindering progress?

Ranked higher than a country where many believe there to only be one valid party and that if the other party gains power that the entire democratic system will collapse and bring Armageddon?

That's who you're comparing against?

Saudi Arabia doesn't have the power to dick around with human rights halfway across the globe.

Usually people would consider within a few degrees (1? 2? Certainly less than 5) to be an acceptable margin, but the pole itself is a well-defined point along the axis of rotation.

This is what happens when your incentive structure doesn't reward actual proper journalism.

Might as well have quoted my own asshole

American media is legitimately just extremely unreliable. British, Chinese, Russian, French, German, Middle Eastern, and Southeast Asian sources all got the detail that the recent Indian moon mission landed near the South Pole, but most American media picked up that they had somehow landed on the South Pole and put that in their titles.

They were 21 degrees of latitude off, for reference.

Why would Ford care when it can just petition the US government to block the sale of Chinese cars? It's the same thing Boeing did to block Bombardier sales in the US.

If you feel like giving China a domestic supply of O&G so they can switch their coal plants to gas ones, be my guest.

That's been the single greatest contributor to reduced emissions in North America and Europe over the past few decades.

Tell me you haven't read the Communist Manifesto without telling me you haven't read the Communist Manifesto.

China is moving faster on renewables than every other country. China is moving faster on EVs than every other country.

Who's not changing?

Then why have a peace blueprint in the first place? By your description, Ukraine has no reason whatsoever to ask for peace. Why propose a peace blueprint?

By definition, that is pro-vigilantism

So… What leverage does Ukraine have to make that happen?

That's not the point. The point is whether Ukraine's peace plan makes sense in the context of the current situation in Ukraine. It doesn't, and frankly it's an indication that Ukraine really doesn't want peace right now because they dont think they have the leverage to demand a fair peace.

China is still leading in solar, wind, nuclear, and hydro deployment…

I'm sure China would be happy to harness geothermal too, but they don't really have dense geothermal capacity to exploit.

Isn't that less efficient because of motor losses, drag, etc? It's also heavily dependent on geography.

Because on a per-capita basis, you still outpollute China by a factor of at least 2?

Because unlike China, your government moves incredibly slowly and needs more momentum to actually accomplish change?

Most of China's increased electricity demand is to bring poor people who are currently farming in rural fields into urban jobs within big cities. It's to help meet the growing demand of a population that currently has:

1. 296 cars/1000p (US: 908/1000p)

2. 73.7% Internet connectivity (US: 92%)

3. Limited heating capacity because of very little natural gas supply (US: this basically isn't a problem because the US has infinite gas reserves)

4. Rolling blackouts in the summer because of AC use since China and other countries that make up the Global South have been disproportionately affected by climate change (US: this isn't really a problem)

But yes, please feel free to blame the rich… but please don't ignore the fact that you ARE the rich.

Dude isn't wrong: fossil fuels are just really good for a bunch of industrial operations. Doesn't stop China from leading the world in the manufacture and deployment of solar panels, manufacture and deployment of wind turbines, development and deployment of nuclear power plants, development and deployment of hydroelectric power plants…