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@[email protected] to United States | News & [email protected] • 2 years ago

Climate Is Now a US Culture War Issue

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And it couldn’t have happened at a worse time.
  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆M
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    That’s a really dishonest framing of China’s policies given that it’s the one place in the world where wages are actually going up and poverty is being eliminated:

    If we take just one country, China, out of the global poverty equation, then even under the $1.90 poverty standard we find that the extreme poverty headcount is the exact same as it was in 1981.

    The $1.90/day (2011 PPP) line is not an adequate or in any way satisfactory level of consumption; it is explicitly an extreme measure. Some analysts suggest that around $7.40/day is the minimum necessary to achieve good nutrition and normal life expectancy, while others propose we use the US poverty line, which is $15.

    Labor in China is far from being cheapest in the world today, so your whole narrative here is based on a false premise.

    What China had the willingness to do was to create a concrete plan to move off fossil fuels and then commit to implementing it long term.

    Meanwhile, the relative difference is pretty significant:

    For example, the USA has a value of 7.7% meaning its net import of CO2 is equivalent to 7.7% of its domestic emissions. This means emissions calculated on the basis of ‘consumption’ are 7.7% higher than their emissions based on production.

    For example, China’s value of -14% means its net export of CO2 is equivalent to 14% of its domestic emissions. The consumption-based emissions of China are 14% lower than their production-based emissions.

    And then we have to look at this in the context of per capita emissions which is even worse https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-states?country=USA~CHN

    The key part in all this is that China is transitioning off fossil fuels while US keeps talking about it, while having done little tangible work in this regard.

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      They’re specifically using forced labor from Uyghurs for solar manufacturing. It’s a problem, and one that’s complicating the ability of China to export solar panels.

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        There’s no actual evidence for this claim. If you want to see actual forced labour then look at US prison system. US has the highest incarceration rate in the world and prisoners are used as literal slave labour. Meanwhile, the smear by US regime is also having very little actual impact on China’s ability to export solar panels.

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          If it’s not real, China can open up the region to outsiders, and let workers communicate freely without monitors present or spyware on their phones.

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            China has opened up the region to outsiders plenty of people have visited it including western news agencies. Here’s one example. You’re just regurgitating propaganda your regime is feeding you, there is no evidence for it. Meanwhile, we have lots of concrete evidence for precisely the sorts of atrocities US accuses China of happening in US. Maybe focus on what’s happening in your own country.

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              Lol.

              And it’s seen in the fear that was ever-present, just below the surface, on two rare trips to Xinjiang I made for The Associated Press, one on a state-guided tour for the foreign press.

              A bike seller’s eyes widened in alarm when he learned I was a foreigner. He picked up his phone and began dialing the police.

              • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆M
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                That’s a great example of the language western propagandists like to use that resonates with people like you. However, once you read past the spin it’s pretty clear that they’re not able to find any tangible evidence of repression they’re claiming. Of course, this kind of narrative works because Americans are primed to believe it without question. I guess thinking that China uses slave labour in Xinjiang is what helps you somehow rationalize why US isn’t doing anything to transition off fossils.

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                  Official policy of the United States is to actually get off fossil fuels

                  And legislation to get the country a chunk of the way there passed last year

                  So no, not nothing.

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                    In actual tangible terms US has done very little so far, especially when compared to what China has done already.

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