As the Western World Hits Pause on Climate Change, China Takes Over

As the Western World Hits Pause on Climate Change, China Takes Over

“This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion… All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.” 

Donald Trump addressing the UN General Assembly, September 23rd

“These are projects that Congress already approved and funded — projects that create jobs, lower electricity costs, and move our country forward. Instead of working to help our families and communities, the Trump Administration is tearing these projects down, driving up energy bills for families, and putting hardworking people in New Mexico and across the country out of work.” 

New Mexico Senator (a Democrat) Martin Heinrich, after an Energy Department press release stating the 321 green energy infrastructure awards which would have gone to the 223 projects were being canceled after a “thorough, individualized financial review.”

As alternative energy has supplanted coal at the world’s largest source of electrical power, as floods, fires, mega-storms and super-heated droughts proliferate, technologically advanced nations are backing off of their climate change commitments, citing affordability and growing popular disappointment (wink, wink: keeping oil giants powerful and profitable)… with one key exception: China. Indeed as rich nations from the US, UK and Canada to much of the European Union lower or eliminate their climate change initiatives and pull back on their financial investments in this sector, developing nations have made one very startling discovery: they are no longer at the mercy of big oil, as fossil fuels have drained their economies, because the cost of green energy is now vastly cheaper… and can be installed anywhere. Guess who makes their equipment? Not us!!!

China now accounts for 74% of the global investment in the manufacture of green energy technology: wind, solar and batteries. As the United States literally has surrendered this tech sector to the Peoples’ Republic of China, the rising profitability and resulting job creation fosters a world that does not care a rat’s behind what powerful incumbent governments want. Money talks and old-world power generation industries are being replaced at a rapid pace, no matter the disinformation these embedded, increasingly obsolete fossil fuel behemoths may disseminate. Even they are not building or upgrading their refineries to maximize their market efficiencies. “Drill baby, drill” seems more appropriate in a dentist’s office these days.

Canada’s carbon-capture efforts and France’s commitments to its own Paris Accords are being stalled or reversed. Nothing quite as bad as Trump’s luddite blindness. “Global corporations from Ford to J.P. Morgan Chase are all rolling back their commitments to climate change, which is all deeply intertwined… That’s because, as Bloomberg reported… profits will always come before net zero commitments. According to a report out of the Institute of International Finance (IIF), an industry group that includes banks and financiers like BlackRock Inc., Goldman Sachs Group, and UBS Group AG, there are some misunderstandings about the role that finance has in decelerating the rate of climate change. ‘Instead of indicating that the money required to green the economy is ready to flow, industry leaders now say their first priority is delivering financial returns for clients—and that means energy-transition investments will only be undertaken if they’re considered profitable,’ Bloomberg wrote. The bankers are pointing their fingers at the politicians and governments, who have been largely unwilling to make significant headway in fighting climate change globally.” Abigail Basset writing for the October 7, 2024, Climatebase.com

“New Stanford-led research in PLOS One reveals a growing constellation of think tanks, research institutes, trade associations, foundations, and other groups actively working to oppose climate science and policy. The number of countries with at least one such “counter climate change organization” has more than doubled over the past 35 years.

“According to the Jan. 22 study, the two factors most closely linked to the formation of at least one counter climate change organization are the strength of a country’s commitment to protecting the natural environment and the level of formal organization in its social sector… ‘We found that counter climate change organizations tend to emerge after pro-environmental policies are institutionalized in government,’ said senior study author Patricia Bromley, associate professor of environmental social sciences in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and of education at Stanford Graduate School of Education.” Chris Binns in a January 25th report from the Stanford University School of Sustainability. But China is taking over.

Writing for the September 2nd Electrek.com, Michele Lewis, explains: “China is leading this surge by a wide margin. In the first half of 2025, the country installed more than twice as much solar capacity as the rest of the world combined, accounting for 67% of global additions. That’s up from 54% in the same period last year. Developers rushed to complete projects before new wind and solar compensation rules took effect in June, fueling the spike. While that may lead to a slowdown in the second half of the year, new clean power procurement requirements for industry and bullish forecasts from China’s solar PV association (CPIA) suggest that 2025 will still surpass 2024’s record high.

“Other countries are adding solar at a healthy clip, too. Together, they installed an estimated 124 GW in the first half of 2025, a 15% year-over-year increase. India came in second with 24 GW, up 49% from last year’s 16 GW. The US ranked third with 21 GW, a 4% gain year-over-year despite recent moves by the Trump administration to suppress clean power deployment. Germany and Brazil saw slight dips, while the rest of the world added 65 GW, a 22% rise over 2024.” Tesla cannot compete against China’s global domination of the EV marketplace (see the BYD vehicles pictured above). Slashing at our finest Universities seems colossally stupid as well. I’ll end this blog with a chart presented by Ms Lewis:

I’m Peter Dekom, and I am tired of America’s leadership and its legacy-protecting corporate dinosaurs pushing our great nation into a second-rate, also-ran status.