China consumes more coal than all the other countries of the world combined.

That's interesting. From BP's Statistical Review of World Energy via Matt Ridley.

China consumes more coal than all the other countries of the world combined.

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I am not an immiseration advocate such as the social justice global warmists. All countries ought to generate energy in order to life their people out of poverty. Ideally clean, renewable or plentiful, efficient energy. Such as nuclear. But each country starts from a different point of wealth, culture, technology, institutional coherence and legitimacy, etc. You do what you need to do to make everyone's lives better.

So this graph is not so much an issue of alarm as proportionality. Global warming advocates are not merely ignorant bullies. Like all bullies, they are also cowards. They would much rather make the lives miserable of the ordinary citizens of open democracies than they would confront the aspirations and power of the largest totalitarian state which is actually responsible for most of the problem they claim to be concerned about.