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0 pointseastbound3y ago0 comments

I don’t fear QoL being degraded (If it’s necessary, it’s cool for our children); I fear the loss of meritocracy, as I have never seen any other model work. I also fear it’s competing countries that fuel the climate fight in my country to persuade us of consuming less, while we’ll never be able to have an impact on them, even through international agreements.

So basically, the “China is just dis-industrializing Europe, by convincing us to self-sabotage our industries” argument.

Last point, I’ve never seen scientific studies used in politics that were not massively forged.

1. Fear of meritocracy 2. Fear of countries not negotiating an equalitarian deal 3. Fear of the awful science of “that camp” (and I know exactly what 3 arguments you’ll oppose, so, don’t bother with the direct answer, please assume everything you want to answer is already understood and incorrect, and go straight to a second level of answers).

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maigret3y ago

What are the 3 arguments? Are you referring to IP theft when you mention meritocracy?

I know the current problems around manufacturing a little bit. My reading is that, yes, we can’t get out of fossil immediately, but I think we mostly failed to prepare and the current situation shows us that renewables are significant more resilient than detractors rate them.

Also I think producing cheaper products by running on coal is a thing of the past. What happens though is that bureaucracy and pay is clearly lower in some countries. Every country has to build a strategy based on those facts. In Europe I’ve seen too many countries comfortable with the past results and thus failed to plan for the future. Then blamed it on other countries because it’s an easy target for deflecting failures as always.

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