Thread by @ExtinctionR

China's annual emissions are huge and their plans for coal-fired power stations are incompatible with a habitable planet.

Are you a leader of a Global North country, wondering how you can persuade them to do better?

IDEAS... 💡🧵

First up, make sure your per capita emissions are lower than theirs - looking at you, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan and many others.

Also remember the Global North's historic emissions are off the scale, and almost all that carbon you burnt in the last 200 years is still in the atmosphere.

Not much you can do about that now except decarbonise as quickly as possible to atone for past sins.

So next, make sure you're not doing anything you might want to ask China to refrain from.

You're not drilling for oil or building pipelines or coal mines or expanding airports or building roads or new killing machines are you?

Otherwise it's "Do as I say, not as I do".

Won't it be a disaster if China develops an appetite for meat like the USA's?

Yes, but it will also be a disaster if Global North countries continue with high carbon diets, so what are you doing to make the shift?

Does your country import loads of crap no-one needs from China by fossil-fuelled ships and planes? Yes? Why not stop?

Does your country have a plan to slash emissions in line with limiting global heating to 1.5°C?

Unless you are @barrowpresident of the Gambia, the answer is no, so why not get your own house in order?

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P.S. Some of the most populous parts of China are set to be decimated by climate breakdown. #NoOneIsSafe. #NowhereIsSafe.

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Solidarity with those brave Chinese people engaging in activism for a liveable planet. 💚✊💚

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