China: we are worried about overpopulation, we will tax over 1 child
Westerners: authoritarian!
China: Birth rate slowed, stopped the tax, has 1.4 billion people
Westerners: ugh you have too many people! Irresponsible!!!
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USA is still accountable for more c02 pollution in the atmosphere than any other country. And keys be honest, USA and Europe are responsible for most of the pollution of all kinds in the world. Please break out of your bubble…
And Western whataboutism is so prolific you don’t even know that you’re doing it.
Thanks for dropping the facts comrade. It’s hard for some people to understand that having 1.4 billion people means you can’t compare apples to apples with USA or Europe. China is by far working the hardest on lowering their carbon footprint.
And yes, I’m considering the SocDems in Europe, those people don’t use a lot of energy because they produce nothing. If their overseas manufacturing plants produce carbon, it’s not part of their footprint, on paper. China produces many things, their footprint matters to many countries.
offtopic: Is there an Feddiverse-Alternative to Discord?
I believe that is Matrix. Have not used, only heard about it.
Nah, he doesn’t care. Between how much he has now, and what he gets in the IPO, he has “fuck you” money now. He knows this is bad publicity, but it won’t matter in the long run.
Capitalism unfortunately does not care about the investors there to support the platform. When 80% of stocks are held by the richest 10%, the market moves according to their desires. Money, money, and more money.
Okay so I did debate on whether to use that example, because yeah I’m a skeptic and don’t fall for the naturalistic fallacy. But it just happens to be a good example. Such a silly thing, made of “natural” and/or “unnatural” ingredients covers 100% of things lol.
Hardly matters? Try having kids and a dog for 5 years with a cloth couch. The permanent stains and smell will be impossible to get out.
Real leather? Will hold up to everything and go for 10 more years.
Garbage leather? Will crack and tear the first time your dog gets on it.
Leather has issues (Ethical issues with how we treat cows. Elitists issues putting leather on every surface of their car whether it needs it or not, etc). But quality leather matters, and does make a difference in durability.
“Made with natural and artificial flavors”… So just… made with artificial flavors then…
And it’s single minded liberal thinking that makes you believe that these things are mutually exclusive, and putting words into my mouth to say things I never said.
How difficult is it to flip a switch in educate one and a half billion people? How long does that take for it to take effect? How can you get high quality education into rural societies that may not even have access to the internet?
This is the problem with liberals, there’s only one solution isn’t there? Everybody believes the same thing, right? The solution that works for me will work for everyone…
Of course access to sex ed and condoms will help, I believe that. And China is now doing that too. But that’s so easy to Google, I know you didn’t even try. They didn’t need to tax multiple kids forever, they needed to slow it down quickly. And they’ve removed that tax.
Westerners use taxation to incentivize or decentivize action all the time, is that authoritarian? Please, for one fucking second, turn your excellent deduction skills (lol) inward onto yourself for a moment.