30 May

What China has done in the last 50 years is miraculous, unprecedented in all history. It’s lifted 900 million people out of poverty. In doing that it also made the rest of the world richer, most countries’ economies became absolutely dependent on China, to survive. Meanwhile it’s also almost the sole reason renewables technologies and EVs are now widely available. And what are we doing about all this? Dragging out all the old racist Yellow Peril claptrap. There have been times I’ve been seriously tempted to move to China, if that was even allowed, to experience life in an adult culture again. Where problems are solved, and stuff gets built, and there’s excitement about human progress. Rather than the dreary world of social media flag-waving Paulines, whining and bitching and obstructing all change, building nothing.