As the world’s horticultural population becomes older and more young people choose to live in cities, the number of farmers around the world is gradually decreasing, raising the question: who…
Thankfully they make everything, so if they transition to green production and energy then they will basically force everyone else to be green by proxy. It boggles the mind how well they’ve played their cards in the past three decades.
Yeah, at some point everybody will be scrambling to get off fossils and China will be the only country that can actually produce clean energy tech at scale. China already accounts for vast majority of solar and nuclear tech. Shockingly, it turns out that planning for more than a couple of years in the future results in lots of advantages.
Parliamentary system plays a big role here by directly encouraging short term thinking. Since parties tend to stay in power for a handful of years, that becomes the political horizon for their projects. Nobody wants to start a project that another party might take credit for, and many times when new parties get in power they tend to change course. Couple that with a stock market driven economy where quarterly profits are the only consideration, and you have a solid system for ensuring that no long term planning happens.
Agreed, it was a bad idea for longevity. I wish for a communist super-AI that will live forever and stay in power so that we will have something that thinks beyond our lifespans. I would settle for a party, however.
China stopping climate change is my only realistic hope. America and satellites have proven completely ineffectual.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I think as well. China is the only major economy that’s actively transitioning off fossils right now.
Thankfully they make everything, so if they transition to green production and energy then they will basically force everyone else to be green by proxy. It boggles the mind how well they’ve played their cards in the past three decades.
Yeah, at some point everybody will be scrambling to get off fossils and China will be the only country that can actually produce clean energy tech at scale. China already accounts for vast majority of solar and nuclear tech. Shockingly, it turns out that planning for more than a couple of years in the future results in lots of advantages.
Thinking in terms of decades is the way things should be. But noooo, we are stuck to thinking in quarters in the West.
Parliamentary system plays a big role here by directly encouraging short term thinking. Since parties tend to stay in power for a handful of years, that becomes the political horizon for their projects. Nobody wants to start a project that another party might take credit for, and many times when new parties get in power they tend to change course. Couple that with a stock market driven economy where quarterly profits are the only consideration, and you have a solid system for ensuring that no long term planning happens.
Agreed, it was a bad idea for longevity. I wish for a communist super-AI that will live forever and stay in power so that we will have something that thinks beyond our lifespans. I would settle for a party, however.
It actually does look like machine learning will play an increasing role in managing Chinese economy.
That is so bad ass