That’s right, I just imagined walking into a public library and borrowing four books today. And there’s no way that it would have cost 95% of the population of any country a year’s wages to get much worse books in any pre-capitalist system We’re better off. Objective fact.
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Replying to @yungneocon @Itmechr3 and
Not extinct yet! Personally, I think we have a good shot at making it a ways further, if we proceed pragmatically and don’t get too caught up in vague ideologies.
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Replying to @yungneocon @Itmechr3 and
Noah posted a fascinating article earlier today about how China emits more carbon than US and Europe combined. U.S. military is relatively insignificant.
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Replying to @marthsshinedair @yungneocon and
Yeah but carbon intensive production is as direct product of FDI, which as Malm describes "relocates factories to situations where labor power is cheap and disciplined". The problem is that the second requirement for large-scale manufacturing is a large scale energy grid
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Replying to @yungneocon @Itmechr3 and
Thing about people trying to do national level pollution stats is that the wealthiest nations outsource a lot of their heavy industry elsewhere. 100 companies generate 71% of emissions. The US military is one of the biggest polluters. Facts
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U.S. consumption-based emissions are only slightly higher than our production-based emissions. Yes, we do outsource some emissions, but not much.
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