• partial_accumen
    3•7 months ago

    at this point I’m open to chinese world hegemony if it means I get a house, a union, and a carbon neutral economy

    Have you looked at China today to see what each of those things looks like in China? Hint, its surprisingly worse in those 3 things than the USA, which is already a low bar.

    • Match!!English
      5•7 months ago

      This did prompt me to check, and China’s homeownership is higher and homelessness rates are lower than in the USA, as are their per-capita carbon emissions

      • partial_accumen
        1•7 months ago

        and China’s homeownership is higher and homelessness rates are lower than in the USA,

        Dive a bit deeper into what qualifies as a “home” in China. There are certainly fine homes and I’ll even say the majority of homes would fall into this. However, 1/3 of China is rural. A portion of that have open fires and no running water, yet is still meeting the definition of a “home”. I will say I do like China’s housing subsidy to the poor, however.

        as are their per-capita carbon emissions

        That’s one measure, and a valid one. However, if we’re chasing solving carbon we need two things. Identify and solve the largest producers of CO2.

        1 China 32.88%

        2 United States of America 12.6%

        3 India 6.99%

        4 Russia 4.96%

        Here’s the USA’s CO2, on the way down:

        source

        Here’s China’s CO2, on the way up:

        source