Horatius
Not sure if this is the right place to debate this but here goes
Thanks Czechmate. It probably isn't, but it looks like that isn't going to stop us lol.
Trump is a moron yes and so are many others in usa that deny climate change and environmental degradation
But i think here in australia we misunderstand how the US system works
The 50 states govern themselves under a federal banner, so you need to look at the reactions from state governments when trump was elected and made horrible environmental decisions
They were as a whole shocked and appalled
Trump has little to do with it. The execs and economists that help form policy are not semi literate morons though. More like intelligent and greedy.
It seems odd to be staunch on this one issue, when the system we use to give us 1st world conditions largely relies on exploiting poorer countries in general (particularly for the cheap labour). Where did the computer/components you used to type this, originate? This is simply the reality of modern global economics and is unavoidable.
Of course there are many intelligent and reasonable people in the US, but this doesn't change anything. The fact is the US has snubbed the world and the consensus of science regarding degradation of our planet. They emit more carbon than anyone else per capita, and have decided to ignore the scientists and are set to increase this. Unless they have done an about turn recently? The world is now looking to China to lead the way, which they are at least trying to do.
China on the other hand has a self elected capitalist communist (?!?) government that cannot be questioned or held accountable for anything and exists only to profit party members
Not really big on politics, but it would be quite errant to think that "democracy" is is too much different in any financial sense. "Democracy" is simply another expedient political system used to to implement what really governs our planet ie. capitalism. When democracy fails it can descend into a plutocracy (aka crony capitalism). It's becoming a problem in many western democracies. They no longer represent the people's financial interests (if they ever did). The masses are necessities, given enough to survive to varying levels of comfort so that they can be used in the creation of huge wealth for a small percentage. A skewing of wealth that is increasing immensely. It still holds similarities in principle to feudalism in some ways. All sounds fringe and conspiratorial, but a more critical view of capitalism is becoming more common among mainstream academics, social scientists and even some economists. It will eventually have to be all revamped anyway, for other reasons.
Comparing china to japan in the 60s and 70s as many do seems to me an obvious and flawed comparison
(maybe because to us japanese and chinese look similar despite being culturally very different?)
Ive heard so many older blokes refer to "jap crap" but there is so much of this gear left from when my parents were younger that still works like the day it was made
Olympus cameras
Nikon binoculars
Matsushita (panasonic) headphones
Pioneer stereo
Datsuns, corollas, mazdas etc from the late 60s and 70s
As one of them older blokes, I concur with them. Though eventually I switched to Japanese car when it became obvious they were better quality and value than brands such as Holden. It wasn't always so, they were a bit (lot) crappy in their more original earlier versions. There are all different brands still running around from bygone eras. That doesn't mean they weren't rubbish. The Koreans are the standard re upping quality quickly.
If there is any difference, it is that Chinese goods are far better than the Japanese were "comparably". Where do you think Apple (and just about every other computer) products are made? It ain't California. The great scientific instruments the yanks used to make have long been made in China under US brand. Still excellent, for about 20% of the price. Sony? Nikon? It's more a question of who
doesn't outsource.
Fukushima was an accident
No, the circumstances of nature were random. The problem itself seems to be that nuclear reactors existed in an earthquake/tsunami zone without adequate thought to contingency. That was more dilligaf than accident. Something we might expect in the developing world.
Either way, the facts are it happened.
So I still disagree, the only real issue IMO is whether these tyres are good enough quality.
