In April this year, China installed more solar power than Australia has in all its history. In one month.
This isn’t a story about Australia’s poor track record on solar; Australia is a global leader. Rather, this shows the astonishing rate at which China is embracing renewable technologies across every aspect of its society.
But don’t make the mistake of thinking this transformation is driven by a moral obligation to act on climate change.
China’s reasons for this are less about arresting rising temperatures than its desire to stop relying on imported fossil fuels and to fix the pollution caused by them.
The superpower has put its economic might and willpower behind renewable technologies, and by doing so, is accelerating the end of the fossil fuel era and bringing about the age of the electrostate.
“The whole modern industrial economy is built around fossil fuels. Now the whole world is moving away from that and that means that we are rebuilding our economy around emerging clean tech sectors,” said Muyi Yang, the lead China analyst at energy think tank Ember.
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so all the talk about China building coal plants neglects the astonishing build of renewable energy generation.... and their tech is more advanced that we have in Aus. they are more adventurous with their tech development. and more confident to try new tech.
sure they might or might not be concerned about climate change, but they know one thing and that the dangerous use of Fossil Fuels and the damage such pollution has done to the health of the communities in China.
yet they truly are concerned about CC because they are copping pretty severe consequences of the increasingly extreme strength and the damage caused by storms and typhoons, the increased flooding from melting glaciers in the Himalayas and the potential for worsening damage as CC worsens.Warmer air increases evaporation, which means that our atmosphere contains an increasing amount of water vapor for storms to sweep up and turn into rain or snow.
Just as drier areas are likely to get drier with rising global temperatures, those areas of the world that have historically trended toward heavy precipitation will only get wetter.
At least 137 people died in Texas in July 2025 due to storms that dumped an amount of water greater than the daily flow of Niagara Falls in just a few hours, raising the Guadalupe River by more than 20 feet.
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no wonder China is moving so fast, so heavily committed to renewable energy. the damage from storms and flooding is damaging their economy and their people.
simple facts.
