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Greenpeace: 3 China Firms Emit More Carbon Than All of UK

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(Newser) – China's inefficient power plants and heavy reliance on coal are dragging down global efforts to curb climate change, a Greenpeace report warned yesterday. The report found that major Chinese power companies are responsible for a huge amount of the country's coal use and emissions, with the top three producers alone creating more carbon dioxide emissions than the total for all of Britain, the Guardian reports.

"China is suffering the pains of extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves, typhoons and floods, worsened by climate change," a Greenpeace campaigner in Beijing said. "These power companies can and must help China to prevent climate disaster." He added that China is ideally placed to become a world leader in renewable energy.

Volunteers display a banner at a coal-fired power plant in western Beijing yesterday.
Volunteers display a banner at a coal-fired power plant in western Beijing yesterday.   (AP Photo/Greenpeace, John Novis)
Workers paint wind turbine blades at a factory in China's Hebei province. China relies on coal for 70% of its energy needs, with just more than half used for power generation.
Workers paint wind turbine blades at a factory in China's Hebei province. China relies on coal for 70% of its energy needs, with just more than half used for power generation.   (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
A man cycles past cooling towers of the coal powered Fuxin Electricity Plant in Fuxin, in China's northeast Liaoning province, in this Feb. 17, 2005 file photo. China will overtake the United States as the world's biggest source of greenhouse gasses this year, a news report on Tuesday, April 24,...
A man cycles past cooling towers of the coal powered Fuxin Electricity Plant in Fuxin, in China's northeast Liaoning province, in this Feb. 17, 2005 file photo. China will overtake the United States as...   (AP Photo/ Greg Baker )
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Don't worry about anything changing, because it won't. Quick: Someone name a time when the human race acted as one species, in a single act decided upon by all humans for the benefit of humans. Yeah, hasn't happened yet and won't happen any time soon, either. And when most individuals can barely see past their own neighborhoods, their own nations, how do we expect them to act globally? Exactly, they won't. Reply
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