Germany has 80 million people, China 1.400 millions. The per-capita consumption of Germany is still much higher. Chinas energy production is rapidly growing, and the share of renewable energy in it is growing as well.
Moreover, Germany is the largest economy in the world’s largest democratic economic bloc, since the US objectively ceased to be democratic. So, Germany and the EU have the duty to show that they can do better. “We had democratic governments but they had to serve the short-term interest of capitalist megscorporations” will not sound like a good excuse to our grandchilds when they have to live on a devastated earth.
Germany has 80 million people, China 1.400 millions. The per-capita consumption of Germany is still much higher. Chinas energy production is rapidly growing, and the share of renewable energy in it is growing as well.
Moreover, Germany is the largest economy in the world’s largest democratic economic bloc, since the US objectively ceased to be democratic. So, Germany and the EU have the duty to show that they can do better. “We had democratic governments but they had to serve the short-term interest of capitalist megscorporations” will not sound like a good excuse to our grandchilds when they have to live on a devastated earth.