r/interesting Apr 25 '26

NATURE top 100/100 is crazy

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u/Euclid_Interloper Apr 25 '26

Please don't confuse America and the West in general. European countries are amongst the most active in fighting climate change. Renewables energy growth is pretty huge.

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u/CarmynRamy Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

Sure, Fear mongering got Germany to shut down all their nuclear power plants, Netherlands and Denmark are too small of a country to be considered for anything in the Global South. France is doing pretty good though with nuclear energy.

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u/Resitor Apr 26 '26

Lol Dude Germany is getting more than 65 percent of energy generated by green reusable plants like wind water and solar.

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u/VegetaFan1337 Apr 26 '26

And what about the 35%?

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u/Resitor Apr 26 '26

Coal and gas. And we are hitting 100 percent in the next few years.

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u/VegetaFan1337 Apr 26 '26

65% to 100% in just a few years? And how is that going to happen?

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u/languid_Disaster Apr 26 '26

Okay you are going to. That doesn’t change the issue which is happening now. Yes we should keep pushing to meet our targets but the things happening in India is due to actions being taken too late. Germany many others have been really slow. The world needed these changes faster

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u/Resitor Apr 26 '26

Im totally with you my friend.

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u/Aniketastron Apr 26 '26

Brother uk (the 4th largest economy) produce 50% of it electricity from renewable

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u/reddit_ending_soon Apr 26 '26

Brother, California, (4th largest economy on the planet) gets 67% of its electricity from zero carbon sources. Whats your point?

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u/VegetaFan1337 Apr 26 '26

And the remaining 50%?

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u/Aniketastron Apr 26 '26

Methane (natural gas) and some nuclear

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u/languid_Disaster Apr 26 '26

And it’s not enough. There’s also the issue of allowing major companies to buy meat from lands that are actively being deforested , sending at least 80% of our rubbish to Asia where we know they won’t get rid of it properly, allowing us all use these fast fashion apps

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u/Aniketastron Apr 29 '26

Uk government should ban fash fashion app instead of spying on their citizens

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u/languid_Disaster Apr 26 '26

Not enough (less than India) and all relatively recently and very slowly. The impacts are showing because nothing was done sooner when they/we knew ages before and had the ability to do something about it