I am thinking this:
MrMakabar
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We literally destroyed perfectly working pedestrian neighbourhoods to make them better for cars. I can not see how having bicycles earlier would have changed anything. We had trains well before cars and at a massive scale and they did not stop cars either.
Israel seems to have a plan. By causing massive fighting in the Middle East, a huge part of the worlds oil and gas supply can be cut off. Bombing the Iranian consulate was a great plan. Unfortunatly it is backfiring. Biden being a fool tries to exchange the invasion of Rafah and with that that the full genocide of the people in Gaza for not fighting Iran. That might mean that it backfires and Trump gets elected. Foolish of him presidents who start wars get reelected.
Scotland had a 49.9% reduction in 2021. So why is is stalling?
Idk supplying Ukraine with long range drones, to strike Russian oil infrastructre would be a good idea.
Just to say it the Lower Saxony example is not quite correct. The situation is that they started using Solaris a Unix system in the 90s in the tax department. When Solaris was no longer really developed, they opted to switch to Linux, as it was easier to migrate. However to unify German states tax departments, the previous state government opted to move to Windows. However the migration has so far failed. Mainyl due to the systems never having been designed for Windows in the first place. The other large user of Linux in Lower Saxony is the police and although they migrated from Windows to save some money, they too had problems migrating back as it was just too difficult.
That is just the reality of it. Software is sticky and once you migrate it often stays. Even when politicans do not like that.
Those are all per capita, otherwise they are hard to compare. So China is a bit lower then the EU, but probably not much anymore as those numbers are from 2021 and EU emissions have fallen, while Chinas emissions have gone up. However those are trade adjusted and that makes comparing numbers a lot harder. If you go for production based emissions, so all the emissions coming from the country ignoring trade, then China has higher emissions then the EU since 2016. That is why the EU does stuff like CBAM.
In general the EU does better then a lot of countries in GDP/emissions. Latin America is the other region doing really well. Brazil is about at the same level as China in terms of development, but has a quarter of the per capita emissions for example.
Obviously cummulative emissions of the EU are still higher then those of China. So the EU is much more guilty then China in that regard.
China: 7.2t
Iran: 7t
South Africa: 5t
Clearly Chinas per capita trade adjusted are below Iran and South Africa.
The EU is at 7.9t btw and the data is from 2021. Since then at least non trade adjusted emissions have increased in China and have fallen in the EU. So emissions level of a Western country, while increasing emissions.
The ECtHR is for the signatories of the ECHR, which has been signed by all EU members, but also all other countries in Europe save for Russia and Belarus. So the UK, Norway, Turkey, Serbia, Ukraine, Switzerland and so forth are also bound by this.
When you do pure central planning it really has seen underproduction historically. However China has a mix between central planning and a capitalist system, which is more like the Western economies during WW2, then the Soviet Union. Those have generally seen some massive production increases.
Also Evergrande is a sympton and not the problem itself. The issue is that China has built significantly more housing then it really needs. That uses a lot of steel and to produce steel you use coal(there is also a process using hydrogen, ususally made from fossil gas).
As for Russia, China lacks the pipelines to buy Russian gas. Currently they only get it from the gas fields in Russias far east. However Europe was supplied from gas fields further west. There are no pipelines between those systems and Russia has been exporting at nearly capacity for some time.
Study is here:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adj8275