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  • Japanese troops drill on island seen as vulnerable to China

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  • yes but see Japan is good now ever since they got nuked into submission

    except for that period where their economy was going to overtake the US and so we had to fuck the Yen sideways

  • Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says

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  • We are the top 1%.

    What's unmentioned is that the top 1%, the top 2%, the top 5%, even the top 10% has a disproportionate impact on emissions. That group is made up mostly by the West, but also the rich elite in China, India, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, etc.

  • Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says

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  • Top 1% does 16%, bottom 66% does 16%, middle 33% does 68%.

    On a per-capita basis, the top 1% is 8x worse than the middle 33% and 66x worse than the bottom 66%.

  • ‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi? | CNN

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  • It's a different definition of metropolitan area, I think. A lot of Beijing's area is extremely sparsely populated, moreso than Delhi's.

  • ‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi? | CNN

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  • Emissions standards were enforced on coal power plants, cars were tightly regulated, and home energy was pushed towards gas (which burns with less particulate emissions) or electricity.

  • ‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi? | CNN

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  • Why?

    Oh, right, because they are building and growing goods being sold halfway around the world

  • ‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi? | CNN

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  • A democracy where people have a voice that the ruling class can choose to ignore. Hmm.

    Democracy runs opposed to capitalism.

  • ‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi? | CNN

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  • Comparing New Delhi (an area of 43km2) to the Beijing metropolitan area (16400km2)... Nice.

  • ‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi? | CNN

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  • Sounds like democracy doesn't benefit the people idk

  • WHO says Gaza's Shifa hospital a 'death zone,' urges evacuation

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  • Who's causing this death zone, Mr. WHO? Did they find they ever find that supposed Hamas base?

  • Australian naval divers injured after being subjected to Chinese warship’s sonar pulses

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  • Japan's EEZ only gives Japan rights for resource exploitation and whatnot. For the purposes of this issue, it's international waters.

    Though, Western media has a tendency of referring to disputed waters as "international" or belonging to whichever country is more friendly to the US.

  • Australian naval divers injured after being subjected to Chinese warship’s sonar pulses

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  • I always note that they're unwilling to show a map of where these incidents occur.

    Odd, that.

  • Probe Shows 126+ Civilians Killed By Israeli Airstrike Targeting ‘Just One Guy’

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  • Hamas commander visiting his family? That makes his family all Hamas. His family talks with other people? They're now Hamas, too.

    So on and so forth until you can justify bombing anything that moves.

  • China’s carbon emissions set for structural decline from next year | Energy industry | The Guardian

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  • China doesn't have much domestic O&G supply and nuclear reactors are so expensive they might as well use them for base load. You play the hand you're dealt.

  • Tribunal against the Blockade of Cuba in Brussels

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  • Cuba: LGBTQ rights enshrined in law

    America: "don't say gay"

  • China’s carbon emissions set for structural decline from next year | Energy industry | The Guardian

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  • China building out future coal capacity is more or less independent from expected future coal consumption.

    That sounds like a crazy claim, so let me clarify: China is actively shrinking coal power plant utilization. The only reason, then, to build more capacity is to better manage peak loads. If you were following the rolling blackouts, you'd know that these are a huge problem in China in the summers.

    So... Yeah, the first-order data itself isn't great, but the second-order data tells us that coal isn't a first class citizen anymore.

  • The Joe Biden-Xi Jinping Summit: Nothing Accomplished?

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  • Biden is pandering to Americans by being confrontational, and Xi is pandering to the world by being collaborative?

  • China’s carbon emissions set for structural decline from next year | Energy industry | The Guardian

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  • And even though many plants were producing more last year to compensate for the decline in hydropower output, the average utilisation rate inched down to 52.4%

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-new-coal-plants-set-become-costly-second-fiddle-renewables-2023-03-22/#:~:text=More%20than%20half%20of%20the,rate%20inched%20down%20to%2052.4%25.

    This past year, China couldn't run their hydro at peak capacity because of a drought. That's why fossil fuel consumption went up. It's not exactly rocket science. China will deploy more solar capacity this year than the entire US has done... Ever. Because of that (and the massive EV transition), China is expected to hit peak oil this year and peak coal next year.

    Meanwhile, US fossil fuel-based energy production is growing YoY at a faster rate than China's coal consumption is - it's just that the US is replacing coal with natural gas... And it's very VERY iffy as to whether natural gas is actually better than coal.

  • IMF Reaches Agreement with Kenya for $682 Million Loan

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  • More austerity, I'm sure that'll fix things.