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Capitalism is now trying to avoid doing the absolute minimum that we would need to do if the climate catastrophe shall be avoided. In fact I am convinced that i
by atoav 2y ago
Capitalism is now trying to avoid doing the absolute minimum that we would need to do if the climate catastrophe shall be avoided. In fact I am convinced that if you had to invent a system that that optimized a societies reaction to climate annihilation in such a way that it does the bare minimum as predicted to be needed by climate models it would probably look a lot like what we have today.
The inly issue with that kind of optimization is, just like with all optimization, that by cutting out too much slack from the system you — well —don't have any slack in the system. Slack that would save the day if models are wrong or unpredicted things happen.
- sagolikasoppor 2y ago[flagged]
- arj 2y agoYou mean China that built more solar last year than the rest of the world combined? Not to mention batteries.
- greyw 2y agoConcurrently, china also built the most coal power generation capacity last year than the rest of the world.
- arj 2y agoCoal in China is declining. "In the first half of this year, China permitted only 10% of the new coal plants as the same period last year." https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/30/china-likely-to-have-lower-ghg-emissions-than-usa-by-2035/ https://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/30/china-likely-to-have-lo...
- namaria 2y agoChina is autocratic but it's not communist or 'non-capitalist' by any stretch of the imagination.
- 9dev 2y agoThis kind of bipartisan thinking is not getting us anywhere, and wasting precious time. China is building a lot of renewable energy infrastructure at this moment, and the US insists on fracking. There is not just black and white, but a lot of hard problems that need solving, now—whether you're Chinese, French, or Kongoan.
- prmoustache 2y agoWhich communist china are you talking about? That thing has stopped existing decades ago.
- lm28469 2y ago> communist china Disclaimer: I don't give a fuck about China but you're objectively full of shit China is only communist in the name, "state capitalism" describes it better. In some aspects it's very similar to how the US operated during war times, just milder. If you think China abolished private property and that Chinese people own the means of productions you probably haven't looked very hard... It's the second country in term of numbers of millionaires and they have hundred thousands of private companies China is actually doing a lot in term of clean energy, if you (we) didn't use them as the world factory they'd pollute way less. It's both the first producer and the one that moves at the fastest pace. btw per capita China pollutes about 50% less than the US (and about as much as the EU average), while they manufacture and ship a huge part of what is consumed in the US/EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable_electricity_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable... > China produced 31% of global renewable electricity, followed by the United States (11%), Brazil (6.4%), Canada (5.4%) and India (3.9%) https://www.irena.org/Data/View-data-by-topic/Capacity-and-Generation/Country-Rankings https://www.irena.org/Data/View-data-by-topic/Capacity-and-G... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_millionaires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...