@peterlee I would question whether India cares... they seem to be ramping up renewables massively. Also, renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels, but the political will is just not there to roll them out, particularly with the infrastructure. But you're otherwise right: Until Trump leaves office the US is no longer our ally.
Also, China has 1,195 coal plants currently in operation, with more being built. More than the US & Europe by a wide margin, and twice as many as we ever had at peak production.
At least we made the effort to make them clean as possible, China could care less.
And "renewables" aren't as clean as everyone thinks, a lot of "dirty" production & logistics goes into building solar & wind farms; quite a bit more than oil/coal on a cost/production return in fact
