Okay. I’m watching. My attitudes spike downwards sometimes, but I’m not permanently hateful anywhere. Sometimes gestures matter, so I’m likely to put some of my whining on hold for this. Y’all could learn that trick; Saudi Arabia did something interesting once and I reeled in a dissident spike there, too. I don’t have to love a country to go from hostile to watchful.
Maybe China isn’t manipulating this space. Maybe western cultures really have started to have a problem with suffering dissociated race-people somehow. It’s awful. Let’s keep working to fix it so people don’t have to be aryans and niggers.
I want China to be a functional modern nation because I want their laboratories to be able to participate on international cooperation. I’m really worried about their long-term toxicity load, too. Tit-for-tat trade policy is a dreadful weak environmentalism tool, but it does something. It’s one of the few internationally compulsory tools - a way that nations can clean other nations without war, compromise, or cooperation. Promoting trade tensions between the US and China very slightly shifts the global balance of metal production towards eco-friendly methods while tensioning waste disposal issues thus prepping them for better handling.
Recycling infrastructure in the USA has actually been fading at a point when we need material research closing the loops. The ongoing pressure about student loans might have an opening in it - can we offer targeted debt relief programs for studies of ecological importance? Ecology and economy do not have to be opposed; we need chemists, biologists, and material scientists for both purposes.
Even though I think Fate of the World was too pessimistic in most ways (and it missed a hazard in another), we still need to lean on every lever, and achieve haste in many ways. The people who slag this site with linkages between acceleration and collapse are fool conservatives; we must go faster, lest the world cease to be safe for Siberian puppers.
Sufficiently good words reach everywhere. Participating on the global stage is not futile.
