On 1/29/2021 at 11:16 PM, BTGBullseye said:1. Carbon is one of the least dangerous pollutants we can produce. The problem is, places like China get away with releasing MUCH worse because everyone has tunnel vision focus on carbon.
Remember the hole in the o-zone? Yeah, we stopped talking about that because when the news was going mainstream in the mid 90s it was revealed the the hole was directly over china. China doesn't even have to have influence in America - it's not like they're going to not sell things to the world, after all, economics demands that humans have unlimited wants and desires and will always pursue that. What really is happening is greedy businessmen in America don't want so much as a tiny disruption in a constant stream of profit (JIT economy), and so they're willing to relinquish any amount of someone else's money or political influence to achieve more profits, which gain them personal political influence and they can chase their vices at the same time. Europe is simply mismanaged entirely right now, and has been for decades, though there are greedy businessmen there as well.
Anyways, this is the ONLY reason China has influence in America. From an economic standpoint, when was eating dirt off of dirt in the 60s and even up to the 80s, and there is no way development can happen the way it did, resulting in the interaction with china we have now (with capital freaking flight coming out of china in the trillions) without heavy mismanagement of the overall economy in the USA. it's simply impossible.