The researchers conclude that the EU should use its strong bargaining power due to the single market to induce the Chinese government to abandon the most harmful subsidies.
This is their advice? Make the technology for the green transition more expensive rather than enact your own subsidies?
Capitalists are going to burn this planet.
As someone who views prison as rehabilitative and not punitive, I could not disagree more.
Whether the road space is dedicated to cars or bikes, it's still dedicated to people.
That accepts the framing that we're designing for cars/bikes/peds. We're not. We're designing for people, whether they're in a car, on a bike, etc.
In that sense it's very much not zero-sum.
It's only a zero sum game if they view driving as an essential and immutable part of themselves, and even then, not really.
Charging adequate prices for street parking, for example, guarantees that you'll always be able to park easily if you need to, a luxury not provided by free parking.
And then, of course, they could always just get out of their cars and immediately start benefitting from the changes.
The average American commutes 20.5 miles each way to work 🙃
We won't be abandoning the tropics. The people who live there will be. And, based on current prevailing attitudes of temperate democracies, those fleeing the uninhabitable zones will be told to simply pound sand. It will be genocide by omission.
The democracy I live under now keeps ignoring or delaying action on climate change in favor of things that are less important than the comfortable survival of our species. If it's trying to convince me it's worth saving it's doing a bad job.
My ideological concerns are secondary to my ecological concerns.
China's solar panel industry isn't a monopoly, much like their auto industry.
The internal competition is part of the reason both are so cheap.
I'm asking you what you think would be different if China was the largest global superpower?
If this is some great fear we're all supposed to have to the point that we'll forestall making progress on decarbonizing then it should be easy to clearly articulate what we're afraid of happening.
What's there to defend? We need more solar panels. The cheaper they are the better.
For context: In the US, CBP can search your phone without a warrant if you live within 100 miles of a border or coast (2/3rds of the population).