Originally Posted by
lucille
70% of China’s electricity comes from coal power.. Domestic users pay around $US 8 cents/KWh. (Seattle is $US 12 cents/KWh … or 50% more than China).
And a significant chunk of China's water supply (rivers) and the air they breathe is so polluted as to not be fit for human consumption ... but then that's the cost they chose to pay 20-odd years ago to become the Manufacturing Center of the World. As a direct result, every other country (including ours) gets to wave their "green" credentials around and rave endlessly about how great they are, whilst sending their dirty dishes someplace else so they don't mess with their calculations.
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics.