• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Maybe at some point the Americans will get scared that the Chinese are actually making strides ahead of them in electrification and decarbonization to actually get unstuck from their idiotic culture war over fossil fuels.

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      Oh, Amerikans would sooner nuke themselves than even consider uncoupling themselves from fossil fuel. All Amerikans care about is “profit uber alles”; they’d rather choke to death on smog and fracking run-off than ever admit Chinese STEM is beating theirs by every conceivable metric.

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        I don’t know about this particular piece of news, but the insane expansion of HSR for example is no fake news.

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        The space race is on. That’s why Starship has been launching so much. Someone at the FAA must have finally realized that if SpaceX doesn’t go ahead at full SpaceX speed, we’re gonna see China take over space.

        They’ve got a space station and a rover on the moon. China will easily overtake us in space, has already in a few places.

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      Fossil fuels aren’t just a culture war. Energy is really important for people, including poor people.

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        Poor people also care about not dying from the effects of climate change.

        Poor people don’t care about the megaprofits of the oil, gas, and automotive industries.