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[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

China is the manufacturing hub of the entire world. Of course it's going to pollute significantly more than India, its energy consumption is 5 times of what India consumes.

And I don't get this insinuation that China invests in coal power. China invests the most into renewable energy than anyone else in the world, almost 40% of global renewable investments come from China. And last I checked almost half of the energy China produces comes from renewables.

And the reason China had use fossil fuels in the first place is because renewable tech didn't exist when they needed the energy. Why didn't it exist? Because capitalists refused to invest into green energy even though the oil companies did the research and knew that fossil fuels are a dead end (that research was done back in the 70s and Exxon decided to bury it instead of acting on it). We see in Africa that countries are skipping fossil fuels and are going straight to renewable because the tech exists, so it's reasonable assume the same would've happened in China had the tech existed.

If you want to shit on China, there are legitimate points to criticize. Renewable energy is not one of those points.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So all is forgiveable in the name of more industry? Including Chinese slave labour?

China produces a lot of cheap plastic shit and textiles nobody asked for, but they only recently became competitive in high tech after stealing from other nations like Taiwan and Korea.

[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So all is forgiveable in the name of more industry?

Is one country supposed to bear the burden of blame because every other western country moved their manufacturing there? If the rest of the world didn't turn China into a manufacturing hub they wouldn't be polluting that much now would they?

Including Chinese slave labour?

Now that is something you can criticize.

China produces a lot of cheap plastic shit and textiles nobody asked for

China produces a lot of cheap plastic shit because there's a lot of international demand for it. The shit that ends up on Temu is the outcome of overproduction to meet the estimated demands of the foreign markets. If you want to blame anyone for China producing a lot of cheap shit, blame America who is their biggest importer of cheap shit.

but they only recently became competitive in high tech after stealing from other nations like Taiwan and Korea.

And that's another thing you can criticize. As far as I know they've (allegedly) stolen DRAM technology and to that my answer is fuck the DRAM cartel. If stealing their tech is necessary to break their stranglehold on the memory production then I'm all for it. The reason we're currently in the middle of a memory crisis is specifically because the 3 biggest memory manufacturers somehow magically all end up with similar RAM prices to a point where one of them deliberately shut down one of its fabs because RAM prices were getting too cheap.