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> Needing more electricity in a capitalist country literally causes the energy mix to become more green over time.

Perhaps true, but meaningless except as a vanity metric if fossil fuel usage rises as well.



EU and US have had declining total carbon emissions for over 2 decades now. The global rise in total carbon emissions comes from outside the west.




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