No, socialism or extinction. We can salvage humanity if we have a radical enough change.

Locally I know like five brown mushrooms that look similar, but I think I know which one’s the psychedelic one and which is going to kill you. Maybe I’m naive, and I haven’t put it into action.

Again, you think China is investing hundreds of billions for show?

China has basically no human rights, they fucking paint grass green so they can pretend to reach their goals.

Largest afforestation in the world by far is “painting grass green” to you.

They have laws, forbidding to collect cooking oil out of trash cans and the sewers.

The horror, how could anyone live in a dystopia like that. Worst law ever.

They systematically disappear Uyghurs to off site facilities

It’s called peaceful terrorism prevention. They had a handful of terrorist attacks and Wahhabism had spread from China’s neighbors, so they educated and developed that area rather than shooting anything that moves. This approach has made lots of progress and the program is over.

And do you think as a Chinese citizen you would criticise the government in a servey if literally everything you do is monitored, everywhere you go in a city is filmed by cameras, every app in the app store has to be approved by the government?

That’s projection from the US and UK where it’s much worse.

and hides their “we have the highest build rate of coal plants” side

Their existing coal plants are far more efficient than those in the west, and they’re ceasing to make more.

Gonna need a source on your surveillance claims.

Again, if it sucks so bad why does the polling show it’s pretty livable?

Take a look at the comrade above’s comment if you haven’t.

I’d call half a trillion in a year a lot. Nonetheless I agree so much more needs to be done especially in a collaborative way, but isolated China’s holding their weight especially compared to the United States and Europe.

Lovely, here’s the source list from my project from last year:

https://www.mybib.com/b/1J6ko1 (too big to paste on here)

Yes, I used Xinhua, simply to learn about Xi’s youth.

Unfortunately, It’s a little outdated with the progress they’ve made in the last year. I didn’t cite them, but there’s also the “at what cost” meme articles saying China growing more forests and public transportation is a bad thing.

You may not believe it, but we know the Secretary of the Treasury does from her recent comments.

The fact is, their power demands are rising, so they invest in and build coal power plants as much as no other country.

Of course, that’s unfortunate. I’m critical of them and they could be doing better. However, have you considered why? It’s western factories that go to China and produce our goods. The West’s carbon footprint is effectively laundered through China. Also, speak for yourself. Genocide Joe over here keeps approving oil pipelines. Yet you set your malaise on China. They and the EU also keep increasing their military budgets sharply, and the US MIC has long been the greatest contributor) to the climate crisis.

I’m pretty sure it’s just for publicity

I love that your source here is nothing more than intuition.

So please remove this china-greenwashing post,

Lol, you’ve given me no reason to. While the West fails to meet it’s pitiful Paris Climate Accords goals, China has more ambitious goals and is already far ahead of them.

It’s just a horrible place

Again, no evidence, absurd reasoning. If China’s such a bad place why have they eliminated poverty and why are chinese living longer, healthier, and happier than USians? Why are at least 95% of Chinese happy with their government?

Edit: I somehow forgot to mention: how can China’s green energy be just for show when the US has recently bemoaned their overcapacity?

I’ve done a decent amount of research thank you very much. If you want I can put up my sources once I get the chance.

That’s the most pathetic lib gotcha I’ve seen in a while. The one child policy made sense at the time considering the low development they started with and the time it takes to build up and support a bigger population, but you know there were exemptions for minorities and it’s not a thing anymore. Second thing, idk what you’re talking about, but yes bad corporations do business in China. That doesn’t take away from the fact that the PRC is doing way more for the climate than the rest of us.

Tbf there is a resource extraction problem, but that is significantly higher in the “we just need to line Elon Musk’s pockets so more people have cyber trucks” approach than the “you can have a good EV for yourself if you want but we also have great public buses and trains running on renewables” approach.

Edit: the book that I mentioned criticizes both approaches and offers an interesting hemp based solution. I think it’s right and hopefully China more hops on that train. Anyway, I forgot your original comment mentioned it being “just as bad as oil” which is blanketly absurd.

Like the gun-owners aren’t mostly cowards too.

You’re serious, aren’t you?

Idk about Che, but that’s Fidel Castro. Fidel was socially progressive in his later years, and Che probably would’ve been but his life was cut short. Today Cuba is a world leader in queer rights, especially considering the 2022 family referendum.

I’ll consider it next time

It’s a satirical article and I didn’t know where else to post

What’s with the downvotes?

Lol, just because people have a legal “right” to some things doesn’t mean we don’t have a right to criticize the ways it’s damaging and there are far better alternatives. It’s also notable that in many places “private property” owners are not allowed the “right” to do what they wish with their land if it might be beneficial to the ecosystem because it would decrease “property values.”

That’s fine in Europe, but to any USians reading clover is not native here and there are natives you could/should be planting. Honey bees are also not native fyi, shout-out to native pollinators.

Lol, Joe Biden, climate hero.

Christians were the first communists, and today regardless of religious affiliation communists tend to be better at upholding Christian values than the average “Christian.” I don’t even know why I bother with you at this point.

Lol, just because people claim to be something doesn’t make them so. Elon Musk is a hypocrite , a racist, a transphobe, a benefactor of slavery, and a massive exploiter, of course Jesus wouldn’t approve. Would Jesus have approved of Chattel slavery in the US because southerners used Christianity to justify their way of life? Jesus isn’t out here whipping people anymore. He made it pretty clear that the punishment for exploitation and cruelty on earth is spiritual suffering. “It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven.” Elon Musk does not appear to be happy now, and I’m sure if hell exists, he’s going there.