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Following a call to share more non-Western themes, here is an article from local Vietnamese newspaper Viet Nam News, Saturday's edition. Reading between the lines is always key here, so I thought you might appreciate this piece.
Vietnam faces a power shortage this spring and summer. The solution is coal and more coal. There is indeed a new power development plan (PDP8) that puts a focus on green energy, but only relatively speaking, coal will grow until 2030. It's growth that matters. The G7 wants green growth, but that's only a side-hustle for the government, it seems. Wind and solar energy have a hard time, enforcement on the ground is falling behind.
So the question for this sub might be how to make green energy the only alternative.
That is not quite true anymore. The EU, which is a huge part of the West has lower per capita production based emissions then China and even when you adjust for trade they are very close. Obviously it is still true for India, Indonesia and Vietnam thou, but China has higher then global emissions per capita.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita?time=2019