“Rather, China’s leaders are seeing green – not in the environmental sense, but in a monetary one.”
So a government that clearly communicates its intent to clean up its environment and ensure long term environmental health, and continues to advance in this field faster than its comparatively aggressive goals is just greedy, got it. It’s not that the sane people in the world want to disconnect energy production from destructive practices and that drives innovation and development. No, evil China is even more obsessed with money than the republicans!
These writers would crow day and night about the economic benefits of a ‘green new deal’ if their politicians were capable of rejecting the interests of their masters.
And the shifting of blame for the American government’s suicide pact with oil and gas entirely onto the Republicans is fascile. As if the democrats blocking any meaningful change or environmentally sound development through their rotating cast of spoilers they keep in the party isn’t serving the same capitalist interest.
‘not only are they doing the right thing, the worst of all is that they are also making money that way’ - The Economist on china’s authoritarian anti capitalism
If a green new deal was politically possible it’d be as part of some milquetoast soc dem’s policy and these exact same authors wouldn’t be crowing over the benefits, they’d be constantly fear mongering over how much it “costs”
See, this means that libs don’t have to have a crisis of conscience for this, because sure, China is making things better, but they have the wrong motivation. It’s much better to have correct motivation than beneficial results, even if that results in the literal destruction of the planet. The means justify the ends after all!
“Rather, China’s leaders are seeing green – not in the environmental sense, but in a monetary one.”
So a government that clearly communicates its intent to clean up its environment and ensure long term environmental health, and continues to advance in this field faster than its comparatively aggressive goals is just greedy, got it. It’s not that the sane people in the world want to disconnect energy production from destructive practices and that drives innovation and development. No, evil China is even more obsessed with money than the republicans!
These writers would crow day and night about the economic benefits of a ‘green new deal’ if their politicians were capable of rejecting the interests of their masters.
And the shifting of blame for the American government’s suicide pact with oil and gas entirely onto the Republicans is fascile. As if the democrats blocking any meaningful change or environmentally sound development through their rotating cast of spoilers they keep in the party isn’t serving the same capitalist interest.
Pathetic jingoism.
‘not only are they doing the right thing, the worst of all is that they are also making money that way’ - The Economist on china’s authoritarian anti capitalism
If a green new deal was politically possible it’d be as part of some milquetoast soc dem’s policy and these exact same authors wouldn’t be crowing over the benefits, they’d be constantly fear mongering over how much it “costs”
See, this means that libs don’t have to have a crisis of conscience for this, because sure, China is making things better, but they have the wrong motivation. It’s much better to have correct motivation than beneficial results, even if that results in the literal destruction of the planet. The means justify the ends after all!