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The Intensive Care Unit of Candlewhisper Archive 3 years 283 days ago Ruinenlust wrote:In a stream-of-consciousness way, since I have to do stuff IRL in a minute: Rule by the communist party; lack of democracy; terrible environmental regulations; Hong Kong is dying; rapidly aging population without having first quite acquired First World wealth to fund such a transition; far too many cities that are far too populous; encroaching Gobi Desert; melting Tibetan glaciers; social and political oppression of Tibetans, Uighurs, and many other minority groups; dictatorial leadership of Xi that is likely for life; lack of open information due to censorship; rapid overdevelopment of the landscape with massive infrastructure projects that have destroyed much of the environment; perennial massive floods along major rivers despite all of the awful dams; rare Earth metal extraction that is terribly polluting; crazy levels of surveillance; etc. At least so I've heard. I've never been there, actually, and I don't intend on going, either. I'll stay in North America, lol. :-) China's actually been pretty good, environmentally speaking, in recent years. However the nature of non-accountable government is that while they can instigate environmental measures on a whim they can also wreck the environment on a whim. In the long term, its not the most sustainable system for environmentalism. I'd agree though that lack of government transparency is a problem. In fact, it's also the thing which hides all the problems we don't know about, and it'd be naive to think that the horrifying human rights abuses and corrupt actions of the powerful are anything more than the tip of a huge and hidden iceberg of state malfeasance. For its wrongdoings, it is accountability in the USA that allows the government to have made progress. While Western democracies have got a long way to go, they've also come a long way, and that's because of accountability. Frieden-und Freudenland, Mount Seymour, Atsvea, Ruinenlust, and 4 othersLord Dominator, Turbeaux, Northern Wood, and Middle Barael

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The Intensive Care Unit of Candlewhisper Archive 3 years 283 days ago

In a stream-of-consciousness way, since I have to do stuff IRL in a minute:

Rule by the communist party; lack of democracy; terrible environmental regulations; Hong Kong is dying; rapidly aging population without having first quite acquired First World wealth to fund such a transition; far too many cities that are far too populous; encroaching Gobi Desert; melting Tibetan glaciers; social and political oppression of Tibetans, Uighurs, and many other minority groups; dictatorial leadership of Xi that is likely for life; lack of open information due to censorship; rapid overdevelopment of the landscape with massive infrastructure projects that have destroyed much of the environment; perennial massive floods along major rivers despite all of the awful dams; rare Earth metal extraction that is terribly polluting; crazy levels of surveillance; etc.

At least so I've heard. I've never been there, actually, and I don't intend on going, either. I'll stay in North America, lol. :-)

China's actually been pretty good, environmentally speaking, in recent years. However the nature of non-accountable government is that while they can instigate environmental measures on a whim they can also wreck the environment on a whim. In the long term, its not the most sustainable system for environmentalism.

I'd agree though that lack of government transparency is a problem. In fact, it's also the thing which hides all the problems we don't know about, and it'd be naive to think that the horrifying human rights abuses and corrupt actions of the powerful are anything more than the tip of a huge and hidden iceberg of state malfeasance.

For its wrongdoings, it is accountability in the USA that allows the government to have made progress. While Western democracies have got a long way to go, they've also come a long way, and that's because of accountability.

Frieden-und Freudenland, Mount Seymour, Atsvea, Ruinenlust, and 4 othersLord Dominator, Turbeaux, Northern Wood, and Middle Barael

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