The US and China must unite to fight climate change, not each other | Bernie Sanders

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : China spent $546bn on clean energy last year and continues to manufacture and deploy more renewable energy than the rest of the world combined.
64% : By 2030, China may deploy enough renewable energy to essentially power the entire US electrical grid three times over.
60% : In the United States, the Inflation Reduction Act included an unprecedented $300bn in investments in clean energy and energy efficiency, which could help increase US solar energy by 500% and more than double wind energy by 2035, reducing carbon emissions by roughly 40%.
60% : Importantly, large sections of the corporate world have turned away from investments in fossil fuels and are now spending hundreds of billions on sustainable energy.
60% : Altogether, the International Energy Agency (IEA) expects the global community to invest $1.6tn in wind, solar power, electric vehicles, batteries, and electric grids this year, compared with just $1tn in fossil fuels.
58% : This progress has led the IEA to forecast that renewables will surpass coal to become the largest source of global electricity generation by early 2025, much faster than previously predicted.
53% : Instead of spending enormous amounts of money planning for a war against each other, the US and China should come to an agreement to mutually cut their military budgets and use the savings to move aggressively to improve energy efficiency, move toward sustainable energy and end our reliance on fossil fuels.
50% : The European Union has laid out a plan to invest more than $1tn over the next decade in renewables and energy efficiency, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% compared with 1990.
46% : In Iran, the heat index hit 158F (70C), testing the limits of human survival.

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