The world’s biggest pollution problem may also be its greatest opportunity.
For years, China symbolized everything wrong with industrial pollution. Smog-filled cities. Toxic air. Massive coal dependence.
But something remarkable happened.
China didn’t just acknowledge the problem — it attacked it. Through aggressive vehicle standards, electric mobility, and public investment, China became the world’s largest producer of electric vehicles almost overnight.
The lesson is simple but profound:
Global problems require global leadership.
While the United States and Europe pioneered environmental policy, China now leads in clean technology scale. If China succeeds, global emissions will fall. If it fails, nothing else will matter.
The future of clean air will not be decided in one country. It will be written across continents — and faster than most people expect.