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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry (insideevs.com)
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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

at this point I’m open to chinese world hegemony if it means I get a house, a union, and a carbon neutral economy

Have you looked at China today to see what each of those things looks like in China? Hint, its surprisingly worse in those 3 things than the USA, which is already a low bar.

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This did prompt me to check, and China's homeownership is higher and homelessness rates are lower than in the USA, as are their per-capita carbon emissions

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

and China’s homeownership is higher and homelessness rates are lower than in the USA,

Dive a bit deeper into what qualifies as a "home" in China. There are certainly fine homes and I'll even say the majority of homes would fall into this. However, 1/3 of China is rural. A portion of that have open fires and no running water, yet is still meeting the definition of a "home". I will say I do like China's housing subsidy to the poor, however.

as are their per-capita carbon emissions

That's one measure, and a valid one. However, if we're chasing solving carbon we need two things. Identify and solve the largest producers of CO2.

1 China 32.88%

2 United States of America 12.6%

3 India 6.99%

4 Russia 4.96%

Here's the USA's CO2, on the way down:

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Here's China's CO2, on the way up:

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