>We are shutting down our clean-burning coal-fired electrical plants, while at the same time India, China, and other countries are building thousands more dirty coal-fired plants I don't think a lot of the climate faggots understand this. The plants that we have in the USA are *heavily regulated.* Everything has to be within very strict guidelines, or the company can be fined into oblivion- so the company has a massive incentive to train its people and develop SOPs which fall within the super-strict "green guidelines" laid out by their state/federal government. Companies spend millions of dollars investing in special incinerator systems which will exude nothing but clean water vapor. Meanwhile, in China, used oil/coal (or other chemical) waste isn't documented by the kg/gallon, carefully transported to a facility for green incineration, and destroyed- it's either just thrown into a landfill, tossed into a ditch/water source, or tossed into an incinerator without all these neat "green" bells and whistles that we pay for over here. Fuck, maybe we could afford to manufacture our own stuff if our companies didn't have to spend half of their fucking budget on making sure they remain "green" enough for the government. For every 1 green coal plant in the Western world where this shit is enforced, there are like a hundred plants in the shithole world where they don't give a fuck- hell, sometimes it seems they *want* to inflict damage on their environment. But yeah this is a great meme, really highlights the absurdity of this notion that one small country shutting its coal plants down is going to make any measurable difference in... anything besides the quality of life for Australians (it's going to get worse).