Why liberal democracies can't produce solar and wind like China does? What good is liberal democracy when it errs on such existential question? Is it really 'democratic' when it literally fuck up the fate of humanity? We need to ask what's wrong, fast.

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You find in writings from the 30s that the fascists are often described as "gangsters"—an element of the diagnosis we should probably bring back, given the naked personal intimation Trump and his minions often resort to, here in the service of accelerating climate collapse

This new report from the Grantham Institute is crucial. And it's quite striking to see it published... it seems to indicate people are willing to consider policy ideas long treated as taboo. China is making incredible strides in clean energy development and ecological

People who care about the climate crisis should be seething against US and Israel's wanton belligerence and its western allies' unprincipled acquiesce. No developing country is gonna trust the west anymore. How can global climate coordination be possible now?

After Iran, what rational developing countries would now choose to slow down a bit on economic and military development just that they can join the global green transition? When the western international order doesn't even respect basic sovereignty and diplomacy?

Climate change requires global coordination, that countries will reduce emission together. That's no way around this. This requires basic rules and trust. If you care about climate crisis, Defeating this warmongering lawless order is as important as cutting emission itself.

Just in 2 days, AI estimate the war on Iran cost billions. People wonder why China can invest so much on Green tech, in effect subsidizing world's green transition. It's actually easy: don't do war, then you will have a lot to spend.

Imagine this kind of money getting into green transition. We may actually solve climate change with that. What we are doing - It's absolutely irrational from a social point of view. Future generations must thought we are insane, that our political system is fundamentally flawed

Chinese scientists have uncovered the drivers of divergent climate changes across Asia over the past 130,000 years, providing new key evidence for understanding the climate change processes and their driving mechanisms in Asia at different time scales and offering a long-term