Who cares about GHG for bags? The goal is to reduce waste, so you should evaluate it based on the amount of materials used.
zephyreks
joined 1 year ago
The Global South is disproportionately affected by climate change and disproportionately ignored by Western powers. People go and say "oh no why are they opening another coal power plant?" but don't consider what other options they might have. China's been leading the development of solar panels, wind turbines, and SMRs, but they can barely meet domestic electricity demand nevermind international exports to the fastest-growing economies in the world.
Taiwanese media wasn't even that dedicated to Chinese disinformation up until like 2016 or whatever.
Relations were normalizing across the strait smh.
But you see, bridges and train stations are clearly racist because they're built by Chinese people on time and on budget.
It's projection. It's clear and obvious projection.
No evidence, as always
Organizing a coup with the goal of overthrowing the government is an entirely separate thing to... Overthrowing the government by killing the president?
That's the thing, I really don't think IMEC makes sense. At railroad capacity of 30 trains per day/240 containers per train, that's about a third of a single container ship in throughput. The Suez canal can handle 50 ships each day easily.
The post I was replying to said:
That's meaningless if they aren't democratic
I get what you mean, but the other guy brought up democracy as if it was the be-all end-all solution. Countries that disprove OP's point about democracy being the solution are fair game.
Chinese people know they're being censored, though. That's the key difference. They know that the perspectives being presented are, by and large, coherent with national policy and most urban people either know how to flip the firewall or know someone who can - it's really not that hard. Sure, there is this nationalist block that doesn't want to do so, but when have right-wing people actually looked at content that doesn't agree with them, anyway?
Ask any random American what they think, and they'll go on and on about freedom of speech and blah blah blah... As if the large media organizations in the US don't all cite reports from "independent think tanks" that are conspicuously all funded by the same billionaires and manned by "ex"-US intelligence. See: the Atlantic Council. The US has been the world leader in manufacturing consent in a way that China and Russia can't really match. It's been impressive to see tbh.
Slava Ukraini, but only so long as it doesn't affect me.
Things don't have to be good in Europe to be worse in America.