‘Europe learned the wrong lesson’ by doubling down on fossil fuels while India and China went green
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/20/europe-learned-the-wrong-lesson-by-doubling-down-on-fossil-fuels-while-india-and-china-wen
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‘Europe learned the wrong lesson’ by doubling down on fossil fuels while India and China went green
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/20/europe-learned-the-wrong-lesson-by-doubling-down-on-fossil-fuels-while-india-and-china-wen
Posted by Naurgul
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We need to prioritise European tech for these projects
Nothing says “green” quite like generating most of your energy from coal.
[https://www.iea.org/countries/india/energy-mix](https://www.iea.org/countries/india/energy-mix)
India went green?
India green yeah sure buddy, what a shit article
I remember when Euronews webpage was readable and not full of cat food ads
Pretty sure China is feeling the pain from the sudden oil dip
One morning, I see Vance telling me how us in Europe fucked up by going green. Then I have this rag of a publication telling me Europe fucked up by going fossil. And here I am, wishing they’d all just fuck off…
In 2025 47.3% EU electricity generated was renewable, if you considered nuclear green as well, then it jumps to 71%.
In China renewables are ~35% and if you add in nuclear then it’s 42%.
Does anybody see the reality? 71% vs 42% which is higher?
India green, are you being deadass right now??
Nothing is green in India lol
Europe should go nuclear and that’s it.
Article written by an Indian, no one cares about India in Europe, it’s literally worse on every metric compared to the poorest European country.
Is this written by the opposite machine? 😂 Who owns euronoose again?
This must be the dumbest take I’ve seen all day.
One minute of “research” shows that renewables+ nuclear makes up 76% of EU’s energy production.
The comparable numbers for India and China is 50% and 56% respectively.
Hell, Latvia is 95% renewables.
Who “rushed back to fossil fuels” in Europe? Germany building LNG terminals as a reaction to Russia”s criminal war is seen as an indicator for that? Is this seriously the level of discourse these days? What would have been the alternative? Continue getting supplied via Russian pipelines?
Maybe that person should look at the massive increase in renewables in recent years, not just in Germany.
That doesn’t mean that you can replace natural gas from one day to the other, that’s just utterly stupid.
Europe? Or Germany & Poland?
What the fuck is this article even?
BBBBBBBULLSHIT
Here in Germany, we’re taking a step backwards; gas and oil remain number one, and heat pumps and solar energy are receiving less support. We’re being governed by stupid people.
Upper management is dumb is as fuck and too greedy to rake on the petrodollars from lobbyists.
Just my guess.
It’s not easy being green.
– Kermit
What kind of idiotic decision was it to label both gas and nuclear as ‘green’ in the EU Taxonomy? Even if they’re called ‘transitional’, putting fossil gas in the same category as low-carbon energy is wild and nuclear is low-carbon.
Europe has been a disgrace. They have removed people’s shoes while giving them nothing else to walk in
Even if you go green, you’re still tied to fossil fuels, a lot of materials are derived from fossil fuels and nobody is replacing those anytime soon as they’re cheap. Not to mention, China and India import a lot of oil, their entire industries run on it, not renewable energies like some seem to think on reddit.
Garbage publication.
Where is the source for this post?
As of early 2026, the European Union (EU) reached a major tipping point where wind and solar generated more electricity (30%) than fossil fuels (29%). While green energy now dominates the power sector, fossil fuels still maintain a significant, though declining, role in total energy consumption, including heating and transport, per European Environment Agency (EEA).
While China have built massive wind and solar power capacity – China also built more coal powered stations than the rest of the world combined last year or so. They aren’t reducing that fossil fuel consumption. If anything they’re probably just reducing oil dependency.
“europe”? why don’t we just say *Germany* instead?
Quite literally fake news.
Maybe the EU should add Euronews to their list of sites that spread fake news.
China has overtaken the EU in per Capita CO2 emissions in 2013, and the gap has only widened.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/chinas-per-capita-carbon-emissions-surpass-eus-46519
2025 saw them opening a record number of new coal power plants.
https://www.dw.com/en/china-boosting-coal-capacity-at-record-high-report/a-73753189
The ‘journalist’ who wrote this article is either dumb or acting in bed faith.
You can remain in the delusion that we can keep our current lifestyle with renewables only. You only need to apply the (very idiotic and false) idea that we can substitute electricity and energy however we want, because of innovation and how smart we are.
The current situation being that our infrastructures have been built with fossil fuels and are being maintained by fossil fuels.
Given that we already peaked for most fossil fuel resources, it was pretty funny to hear about sustainable path while we have pretty much nothing to extract here anymore. And we kept believing economista, industrials and finance people that we gotta keep growing the GDP as much as possible. Yay, we did so, and now we’re going to live the biggest energy crisis anyone has ever known.
And most people have been half hypnotized by populist bullshit like “we’re going to go 100% nuclear” or “solar will replace it np, batteries are getting better”.
Just take the construction sector, that is not electrifying its machines (used to maintain infrastructure). How long do you think it would take to replace all machines ? In a world in which we can already feel the constraints of energy and materials ?
We’re not going to keep growing our GDP. This is already the case for all the people in the bottom of the pyramid of income for many years. You can remain in the delusion that “innovation” or “more imperialism” will make us double our infrastructure every x year, or you can prepare your area as much as you can for a world in which we’re going to live through “always less” instead of “always more”.
India went green? Thats funny
Title: India and China went green
Article:
>… [China’s] continued reliance on coal-fired power.
…
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, India prioritised energy security by buying discounted Russian oil and boosting coal production.
Outright false title. Can’t be more clickbaity than that.
The energy problem is more related with the nuclear rather than the green energy…
This article is a joke, I hope this was upvoted only by bots, because it’s ridiculous.
India imports fossil fuel from Russia now more than ever, and China as well is buying a new pipe and is the king of coal, while the EU has made a huge investment in renewables.
Doubled down? There was a huge push for green energy.
??? What is that title?
EU has way more renewble energy production than either China or India.