Yes china has a lot of coal power. They also have a really fucking lot of solar. They are also currently in the process of installing twice as much as the whole rest of the world combined. The huge amount of renewables they’ve installed has lead to some analysis pointing to the potential that they have now reached peak CO2 output.

Whether the motivation is energy security, reducing costs or green policy it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day the results are the same.

https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-continues-to-lead-the-world-in-wind-and-solar-with-twice-as-much-capacity-under-construction-as-the-rest-of-the-world-combined/

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to-fall-in-2024-after-record-growth-in-clean-energy/

(now if they could just quit the whole genocide and repression of human rights that would be fab)

Lidl UK. It’s 30 days when you join and goes up after 3 years to 35.

I’m not American.

If it makes you feel better the company I work for it was 6 weeks when I first joined it only went up to 7 once I’d been with them for 3 years (as a loyalty perk). Though, that’s because I joined at the lowest level of employee, managers get 7 weeks from day one.

They’re also really crap with sick pay, only giving ten days at full pay then it drops down to my country’s statutory rate.

Only fools take the whole summer off, it’s so expensive to go holiday during peak time.

Better is;

2 weeks in the spring

2 weeks in the summer

1 week in the autumn

1 week in the winter

1 week kept spare so you can have odd mid week days off or a Friday and a Monday.