The west is deindustrializing in the quest for Net Zero
Lmao thats a fucking lie
Wait, wait
The west is […] in the quest for Net Zero
Still a fucking lie
Net zero what? Net zero wage payments? Bc I know they’re not talking about hitting climate goals lol
His main point isn’t even true, China is installing more electric arc furnaces every year. As of January 2024, China has installed 151 million metric tons per year of operating EAF capacity, exceeding the 143 MMt/y needed to achieve the 15% EAF production target by 2025.
British steel, for comparison, has an operating (blast furnace) capacity of 5.9 MMt/year. Yet its going to take until 2032 for them to convert 4% of what China can do in a year? LMAO
So yes, they are winning in every imaginable way
lmao, that’s more than Europe’s total steel production. Keep cryin’ colonizers
British steel, for comparison,
An Indian company shut down British steel production last year
Ta ta!
skimming this it looks like all of the deindustrialization he describes is due to profit-maximizing decisions, which he then pretends were made for environmental reasons
Must be nice to live in a country where people are actually put to work instead of your choice of unemployment or two minimum wage jobs (and even then good luck getting an interview) because porky is way too picky to hire anymore.
I do hear that china has very high youth unemployment though but idk how the statistics are made if lots of those young people are in university or training I guess it’s not to bad
I remember looking it up and it was about the same as Europe but higher than the US.
I have a feeling he is not an environmentally conscience person
This is probably inevitable tbh. Climate Change will affect the global south worse than the west. So at some point the west is going to actively try to make emissions worse in order to “punish” the rest of the world for opposing colonialism.
My read is not that. The “news” article is basically lamenting how the UK/Europe is handicapping itself “green” regulations, so their industry moves into evil China’s realm. And that this action doesn’t even do its purported goal of reducing CO2 emissions because he says that China “continues to build more new coal-fired power plants than the rest of the world combined.”
I’m not sure if that claim is true, but his argument is not, “therefore we need to pass laws/tariffs on CO2-produced goods” for the sake of the planet. His point is the green regulations will enslave the west to China. Literally. “The inevitable end result will be subservience to China.”
