4 ms·
While you are right in saying China is a totalitarian regime, its implementation of state capitalism creates a lot of economic freedom, even though citizens sti
by jokethrowaway 2y ago
While you are right in saying China is a totalitarian regime, its implementation of state capitalism creates a lot of economic freedom, even though citizens still employ very limited personal freedom (as seen during COVID).
China's economy is very capitalistic, a far cry to the socialist west with its redistributive politices - and that's exactly why they're getting richer and slowly buying the rest of the world.
Once a country get rich, its population's tolerance for pollution drop, so this article is entirely plausible.
From personal anectodes I've heard from China, pollution improved greatly in the last decade. It's not just propaganda for once.
- PicassoCTs 2y agohttps://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-plant-tracker/tracker/ https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-plant-t... Mysterious. There own planned economy stats claim to have more coal power lined up for the years to come. And then there faked environment stats claim they produce less pollution. Its magic, going up and down at the same time.
- lm28469 2y agoNow go look at other stats co2 per capita, and exportation. China really isn't that bad considering their size and role in the international trades https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/renewable-electricity-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/renewable-electricity-per... https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2