China has still fucked up its environment massively though. Being the world’s factory produces a lot of byproducts. Sure, they’re concentrating them and trying to detoxify the worst of it but the place is swimming in effluent that does great damage to life in one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. “Green” in the sense of renewable energy and climate change mitigation is not green in the sense of preserving the last tracts of intact wilderness to limit mass extinctions.
China has still fucked up its environment massively though. Being the world’s factory produces a lot of byproducts. Sure, they’re concentrating them and trying to detoxify the worst of it but the place is swimming in effluent that does great damage to life in one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. “Green” in the sense of renewable energy and climate change mitigation is not green in the sense of preserving the last tracts of intact wilderness to limit mass extinctions.