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convey is that a transition from fossil fuels - while maintaining, or certainly, growing an economy - is a tricky business. China is very aggressive in it's goal to be #1 (e.g. Xi's "Belt & Road Initiative"), so they need lots of power and coal is a plentiful resource that's readily implemented...nonetheless, I suspect that they see the long term writing on the wall and are not relying solely on coal and thus are also aggressively implementing a nuclear power strategy (even 'Fast Breeder Reactor' development).

How much they care about Climate Change is debatable, but the fact that they are investing heavily in zero carbon emission nuclear power, shows us that you can "keep the plane flying" as you change engines in mid-flight.

My view for the U.S. is to 'husband' our fossil fuel resources as much as possible while we make our own transition...both for long term energy independence...and for honoring our role in meeting the real challenge of 'Climate Change'...while we pursue our own rightful goal of being #1...not just in economic terms, but in political philosophy (i.e. Democracy).

This isn't a 'Binary' issue...the goal should be quite clear...it's the HUGE challenge of how to make the shift that's so daunting....btw, we'll be using fossil fuels for a very long time...just not so much of them.


Link: https://e360.yale.edu/features/despite-pledges-to-cut-emissions-china-goes-on-a-coal-spree