Comment by roenxi
6 months ago
The West have been executing a long-range plan for 30 years on this one, the lack of power plants is intentional. There have been any number of roadblocks and people working hard to prevent the West doing specifically what the Chinese have done with the goal of maintaining the high air quality that Western countries tend to enjoy.
If anything the West's culture has been doing more long term planning. It is quite difficult to force an economy not to produce something.
Any idea who's been doing this long term planning to kneecap the West? What do they get out of it?
The environmentalist movement. There is a clear trade off between environmental and industrial success, humans don't know how to do both.
https://aqicn.org/map/world - US is generally green and yellow, China tends to dip into the oranges and reds, especially in the industrial zone. It is tightly linked to the fact that China has a powerful electricity grid.
is a powerful electricity grid bad for the environment? is the environment worth sacrificing to make the numbers go up? do you want oxygen bottles to be a subscription service?
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