The COAL that is being burned in china to power those "green" electric cars and other electric stuff is kinda ignored here. China consumes literally 50% of coal produced in the world. Im not saying its much better in other places because instead of coal they use gas which is a lot cleaner but still bad. Calling china green is like calling saudi arabia green.
Yes, I used Xinhua, simply to learn about Xi's youth.
Unfortunately, It's a little outdated with the progress they've made in the last year. I didn't cite them, but there's also the "at what cost" meme articles saying China growing more forests and public transportation is a bad thing.
You may not believe it, but we know the Secretary of the Treasury does from her recent comments.
Tbf there is a resource extraction problem, but that is significantly higher in the "we just need to line Elon Musk's pockets so more people have cyber trucks" approach than the "you can have a good EV for yourself if you want but we also have great public buses and trains running on renewables" approach.
Edit: the book that I mentioned criticizes both approaches and offers an interesting hemp based solution. I think it's right and hopefully China more hops on that train. Anyway, I forgot your original comment mentioned it being "just as bad as oil" which is blanketly absurd.
Wow! Imagine if China implemented a policy to prevent people from having kids, or had a giant monopolistic corporation that didn't care about green energy! That would be horrible!
That's the most pathetic lib gotcha I've seen in a while. The one child policy made sense at the time considering the low development they started with and the time it takes to build up and support a bigger population, but you know there were exemptions for minorities and it's not a thing anymore. Second thing, idk what you're talking about, but yes bad corporations do business in China. That doesn't take away from the fact that the PRC is doing way more for the climate than the rest of us.
We should reject the dichotomy, between 99% Hitler and 100% Hitler we must choose to actually change things and not be passive in front of atrocities. No sympathy for either one of the two sadistic parties of war.
democratic capitalism is the worst form of social and economic government, except of course for all the others (that have ever been tried throughout the course of all human history)
Yes they're both shit, but one IS much worse than the other. Don't let this kind of shit tier meme allow fascism to slide in (yes trump is a textbook fascist)
People need to understand those 10 points that are characteristic of Fascism.
Comically, Fascism was invented by a Black man, an African, named Marcus Garvey, and Mussolini stole it from him, then Hitler from him, to the best of my knowledge...
I wasn’t equating slavery with capitalism here. I was comparing your reasoning with the reasoning of those who argued for the status quo during times of slavery.
Except that at those times, you could absolutely compare slave economies to non slave economies, and the non slave economies were healthier
It's why during the civil war, the north was so much more powerful than the south
Turns out that if you stifle the potential of half your population, lock them in bondage, and assign a significant portion of the rest to watching them, it's not very efficient. It's better to just pay people, even discarding the abominable immorality of slavery and focusing on just economic efficiencies.
I do think a lot of the users here on Lemmy you'd normally refer to as "Liberals" are actually siding with the Palestinian civilians in this matter and not with Israel (from what I have seen over the last weeks)
Even a lot of the beehaw folks seem to be upset with how Israel is behaving. Source: this post
So, are these now Liberals or not, comrade Lemmygrader?
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