It doesn’t. The right answer is that both China and the West suck and should have worked together to reduce consumption rather than accept the waste-surveillance capitalism system they both accelerated from 1970-present
It’s like trying to reduce prostitution, when society is demanding more sex, do you jail the prostitutes or the tricks?
If there’s no demand for sex workers then there’s no sex worker market. However if nobody is struggling to survive, then theres no supply.
You need to end the desire for consumption in order to eliminate authoritarianism
Right. So what was your point when you replied to a commenter saying the US and China are equally bad, pollution wise, with
> No the chinese people, most of whom do not have a ICE car, do not produce those carbon numbers
That sounds to me like you're saying that China is not as bad as the US, because the pollution in China comes in some part from laundered pollution from the US. If that's not the case, could you explain what you meant?
I really don't see that as a fair comparison. OP wasn't equating individual citizens, they were equating the nations as a whole. And China, as a state, definitely isn't akin to a slave being forced to do this dirty work.
It’s like trying to reduce prostitution, when society is demanding more sex, do you jail the prostitutes or the tricks?
If there’s no demand for sex workers then there’s no sex worker market. However if nobody is struggling to survive, then theres no supply.
You need to end the desire for consumption in order to eliminate authoritarianism