13 August

While China builds the future at staggering pace, we trot out Yellow Peril racist ‘cheap Chinese shit’ themes and do nothing but bid up the prices of our houses, and call that an economy. As the article says, one of the most profound changes renewable energy brings is creating energy independence for every country. You don’t have the whole world reliant upon imports from a handful of oil producers. Plus I love that you can stand on a busy street in Beijing now, swarming with traffic, and the loudest thing you might hear is a creaking bicycle. Come on people, Western culture is looking boring and stale, we’re the end of empire cultures, squabbling and preening on social media every day rather than actually producing anything.