It’s official: China is decarbonizing the planet! 官方消息：中國正在讓地球脫碳 compiled by KJ Noh in SF on Sept 19 2025
Prior to China’s efforts, “sustainable growth” was an oxymoron and “ecological civilization” was a pie-in-the-sky slogan, if not outright deception.
Now, a major data-driven report https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/china-energy-transition-review-2025/ from the British Energy think tank Ember shows that’s no longer the case. China’s “ecological civilization” is leading the world away from fossil-fueled economies and leading the way out of Climate Catastrophe. This is the power of socialist planning to serve the people and save the planet.
However, the Western Empire was built on–and is now doubling down on fossil fuels. Western industrial capitalism arose https://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin-articles/petroleum-a-pillar-of-capitalist-expansion through fossil fuels–coal, then petroleum–as the lifeblood of capital: Petroleum is the catalyst https://www.counterfire.org/article/crude-capitalism-oil-corporate-power-and-the-making-of-the-world-market-book-review/ of the commodity form: it drives the machinery of commodification, fuels its transport/distribution/logistics, and is its key raw material. The power of the Empire is based on its control of oil: the subjugation of producers, the coercion of consumers, and the global tribute (“exorbitant privilege”) exacted through the currency that mediates its distribution and consumption (the petro-dollar). It overthrows governments and goes to war https://theglobalobservatory.org/2015/03/civil-wars-oil-above-water-military-intervention/ to hold onto that privilege.
However, the sun, the wind, and the waves are a commons that the US can neither control nor dominate. Countries with the capacity to harness these commons have a way to reclaim economic/energy sovereignty and develop outside of the fossil-fuel stranglehold of the Empire. This is another way that China is sharing the concrete instruments of liberation for the multi-polar world: it is slowly dismantling the master’s house–without using the master’s tools.
However, the US would rather sooner burn the planet down than let China lead the way out of subjugation and planetary collapse. This is one more reason why US war on China has to be prevented.
Ember Report: China Energy Transition Review 2025 (packed full of data) https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/china-energy-transition-review-2025/supporting-materials/
China’s surge in renewables and whole-economy electrification is rapidly reshaping energy choices for the rest of the world, creating the conditions for a decline in global fossil fuel use.
For too long, emerging economies have faced what seemed like a stark trade-off between growth and sustainability. As this report highlights, China’s green ascent challenges that assumption.
Through scale, innovation and long-term planning, China is demonstrating that decarbonisation can go hand in hand with industrial upgrading, job creation and improved quality of life. These lessons carry significance not only for China, but for the broader region – especially Southeast Asia, where energy demand is rising and development needs remain pressing.
Of course, China’s experience is not a one-size-fits-all blueprint. Each country must chart its own course, shaped by its unique resources, needs and priorities. Still, China provides a valuable reference point – showing what is possible when long-term vision is matched with pragmatic, coordinated action.
China’s clean energy transition is fundamentally reshaping the economics of energy across the world. Accelerating deployment of renewables, grids and storage in China, combined with electrification of transport, buildings and industry, are rapidly bringing China itself towards a peak in energy-related fossil fuel use, while also reducing costs and accelerating uptake of clean electro-technologies in other countries. These twin trends are creating the conditions for energy-related fossil fuel use globally to peak and decline.
Snarky NYT article still can’t ignore the truth tries to insinuate negativity/coercion but still can’t overcome the facts).
‘China Is the Engine’ Driving Nations Away From Fossil Fuels, Report Says
https://archive.is/kRVro
Since the beginning of the industrial age, the global economy has required more and more fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas — to power growth.
It is increasingly clear, however, that China’s aggressive efforts to sell batteries, solar panels and wind turbines to the world is on course to bring that era to an end, a new report says. The Chinese dominance of clean-energy industries is “creating the conditions for a decline in fossil fuel use,” according to a report by Ember, a research group focused on the prospects for clean-energy technologies.
The scale of Chinese production since 2010 has driven the price of these technologies down by 60 to 90 percent, the researchers found. And last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative, they said. That cost advantage might have seemed laughable before China began pumping billions of dollars of subsidies into the sector.
“China is the engine,” said Richard Black, the report’s editor. “And it is changing the energy landscape not just domestically but in countries across the world.”
“For too long, emerging economies have faced what seemed like a stark trade-off between growth and sustainability,” said Suwit Khunkitti, Thailand’s former deputy prime minister. The Ember report “challenges that assumption,” he said.
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