Good point, though I don’t think deforestation is a big problem in China anymore. What more efficient food production does allow is reforesting excess soy farming fields, which will definitely sequester carbon while restoring the environment.
Yes, you could just bury organic carbon for carbon sequestration. However, using your custom engineered yeast enzyme to do this is pretty dumb when you could just use waste plant biomass like SinkCo Labs does.
Herein lies the fundamental economic problem with carbon sequestration: you spend money to produce nothing.
Not really. This falls under CO2 utilization, which converts waste CO2 into more useful stuff. Because cows/pigs eat the yeast protein, and we eat the cows/pigs and burn them as calories, we re-release the CO2 in our breath.
This tech is better classed as precision fermentation, and unfortunately has little to do with fighting climate change.
Hasanabi doctrine proved right.
Thanks, fixed!
You have to consider the population density in China. One nuke aimed at an ‘important target’ could pretty easily kill a few million Chinese as collateral.
This would obviously give China all rights to launch a counterattack.
Unfortunately one Chinese nuke cannot do the same to Americans because Americans just don’t live densely enough, which means for a sufficient response China probably needs to launch 5+ nukes per one American nuke.
Of course, the Americans will just launch four or five nukes in response, which will kill ~20-30 million more Chinese. At which point, everyone will be nuking each other.
TLDR There is no such thing as limited nuclear war because any limited strike on China will probably kill enough people to justify a massive counterattack, at which point full nuclear war will have begun.
I made a previous writeup on China’s current position in a nuclear exchange with the US: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5407827/4903187
Y’know what, if everyone was a capitalist it would resolve the class contradiction. /s
To make everyone a capitalist, the libertarian government should make everyone own a share of the company they work at. We can call these companies ‘worker co-ops’. Once all US companies are co-ops, then everyone will control the corporations collectively.
This is peak libertarianism, it just happens to look a lot like communism.
Libetarians’ approach of complete isolationism for U.S. foreign policy is pretty good, actually. Critical support.
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The F? He got ‘convicted’ for child enticement after he started agitating against the Iraq War. He was a US weapons inspector in Iraq, and was on the ground checking for WMDs pre-war and found none.
I’ll cite some previous comments I made, with sources:
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5319924/4836806
Just in case anyone brings up his weird history of child sexual offenses, he was never prosecuted for harming actual children. Both prosecuted offenses were supposedly sting operations (aka entrapment) by FBI and police, which makes them super suspicious. For example, the first one in 2001 was conveniently timed to interfere with his anti-Iraq War advocacy.
The US government seized his passport in early June just to stop him from attending the St. Petersburg Economic Forum and derail his planned tour of Russia, where he would’ve gotten more coverage of his antiwar advocacy.
I would not be surprised if the FBI makes up a new sex offense charge based on this raid to try to shut him up about Russia, since that got the media so riled up the last 2 times. Another kind of bogus charge also wouldn’t be a surprise.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5319924/4838261
The 2001 sting operation was so conveniently timed that even Fox News had to point out how sus it looked: Former U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter: Timing of Arrest Reports Suspicious
Before he publicly came out against the Iraq war and denounced all claims of Iraq having WMDs, AIPAC even tried to buy Ritter off for 6 million dollars and a lifetime of luxury in exchange for him making up shit about how evil Iraq is. Ritter turns them down because he would not lie about Iraq’s WMDs.
Ritter talks about this on Danny Haiphong’s show here.
Ritter’s non-cooperation obviously has made him a massive target, especially because of his deep knowledge on the ground in Iraq and the military apparatus.
If Scott really just wanted to molest children for free, why didn’t he simply go to Israel and get his million-dollar book deal? After all, that’s what all the Zionist pedophiles in the U.S. do.
Scott Ritter isn’t a principled socialist due to his military background and career. Still, he is a valuable voice for anti-US-empire military analysis, since leftists with military training are few and far between. Politically, he falls in the same camp as military-analyst-turned libertarian anti-imperialists Ray Mcgovern, Larry Wilkerson, and Larry Johnson.
We do not and should not listen to libertarians’ proposals of domestic policy, but on fighting imperialist American foreign policy we are aligned.
This is great progress! IDK if they should take the Apple closed ecosystem route or eventually go open source and compete with Android.
Eh, as long as the worker gets stock in the company that they can cash out later if the startup goes big, then the treatment is kinda whatever. That is the tacit deal.
Never work for a brand new startup for the pay. Work for the opportunity of getting rich on its stock.
Startup competition is the progressive part of capitalism. As socialists, we can use them to quickly iteratively develop technologies and production (E.g. China). Only once the startups have become monopolies or have started making money in ways detrimental to society do they have to be controlled/nationalized for further socialist development.