Meanwhile China is going all in on renewables.
BUT
AT
WHAT
COST
Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Meanwhile China is going all in on renewables.
Here is a fact: an authoritarian non-democracy is doing a lot for securing the future of humanity, while the “leader of the free world” are vandalizing the climate and accelerating apocalyptic climate catastrophe.
In 2025, China is a net positive for the future of humanity, while the USA is a net negative.
If that makes you uncomfortable about what our political and economic systems in the West that brought us here, well, you know the meme: “facts don’t care about your feelings”.
If you, like me, care about the future of democracy, we have to do a LOT of digging.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We are a nation of man/woman childs. Petulant little kids who don’t want to grow up and be responsible for anything.
Mertn33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And a lot of burying.
neighbourbehaviour@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Our current system is going about how Marx predicted it would. The course correction that occurred after the Great Depression has been now completely reversed and we’re back staring at its approaching collapse. I don’t think we can escape that long term, and lose democracy in the process, unless we start moving away from capitalism. We gotta attack private firm ownership. Otherwise we’ll keep getting people accumulate enough capital to buy the rest of the system and steamroll the rest of us for profit.
Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
capitalism was kind of never democratic i think, considering so much is basically dictated by the people who “own” it, which feels more like a dictatorship/ feudalism
neighbourbehaviour@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Oh for sure. There’s however a higher degree of democracy than feudalism, mostly stemming one way or another from the newly developed labour power under capitalism. Power that labour has slowly ceded over the last 50-70 years or so, but it can still regain when pressed. The system still contains this vulnerability (from the point of view of the capitalist).