India remains heavily underdeveloped domestically. And the cultural gap - most remarkably, India's enormous vegetarian community - plays a bigger role than it's economic model in curbing gross emissions.

It should also be noted that India has had and continues to have one of the largest active Communist Parties in history. In fact, the 34 years of the Left Front rule in West Bengal is the longest-serving democratically elected communist-led government in the world.

So you can't really use India as a pure capitalist counterexample, unless you only want to discuss the corners of the county under decisive BJP rule (itself a relatively new political turn for India).

China is the manufacturing hub of the entire world. Of course it's going to pollute significantly more than India, its energy consumption is 5 times of what India consumes.

And I don't get this insinuation that China invests in coal power. China invests the most into renewable energy than anyone else in the world, almost 40% of global renewable investments come from China. And last I checked almost half of the energy China produces comes from renewables.

And the reason China had use fossil fuels in the first place is because renewable tech didn't exist when they needed the energy. Why didn't it exist? Because capitalists refused to invest into green energy even though the oil companies did the research and knew that fossil fuels are a dead end (that research was done back in the 70s and Exxon decided to bury it instead of acting on it). We see in Africa that countries are skipping fossil fuels and are going straight to renewable because the tech exists, so it's reasonable assume the same would've happened in China had the tech existed.

If you want to shit on China, there are legitimate points to criticize. Renewable energy is not one of those points.

I think that's a bit reductive. Firstly, I wouldn't describe China as non-capatalist. Secondly, China has a nuanced relationship with environmentalism and green energy as one would expect from a nation that large.