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How China Rose to Lead the World in Cars and Solar Panels (www.nytimes.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15694978

How China Rose to Lead the World in Cars and Solar Panels

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

“Investing in green energy.”

That could be the full article. We all saw all the think pieces and trends about how green energies will be the next big market. But the US didn’t invest in it, deciding to “let the free market decide” and we all junked our jeans on machine learning. So here we are, consuming more energy than ever while other countries saw the trends, invested in green energies, and here we are.