If Commies do that, it should prove this isn't some treehugger's fantasy.
What's with all the deranged and obvious propaganda here? Your 'kid' really couldn't sleep for 2 night or did you make it up to push silly propaganda?
We shouldn’t look at every action taken by someone we disagree with and think: “let’s do the opposite”
Super relevant in the US today where both sides are unwilling to appreciate anything positive done by the other.
The US is held back by corporations that demand ever increasing profits and by political parties that roadblock each other such that it cannot focus any substantial effort on meaningful initiatives for change.
On the other hand, I agree that the person you're responding to didn't make a strong argument by posting something unrelated to solar energy manufacturing and deployment. No more than you did by responding with "but what about the USA...". Neither are helpful, salient, or convincing.
I only pointed back at the US to help reframe the situation in readers' minds who are mostly US based. The list of environmental damage by the US would also be too long to list so it seems unfair to have comments presenting 1 side without mentioning the other.
Corporations can't "demand" profits, profits are what the market conditions form.
Renewable energy will work in America once it makes more money than fossil fuels for the same input. Business in the U.S. is almost not susceptible to political shit.
"Business in the U.S. is almost not susceptible to political shit. "
That's because capitalists control politics. Their profits are more important than social wellbeing.
It was the one I remembered first. Solar panels can be one good thing and the dead sparrows and famine can be one bad ting, and they can balance each out perhaps?
> Is that supposed to discredit all actions by the country?
I didn't say or think of it that way, but you seem to. So, what do you think that action and the following famine exemplifies or points to?
My response was mainly tongue in cheek to the GP's point that communists are somehow the paragon or efficiency and no bullshit attitude.
> The US is held back by corporations that demand ever increasing profits and by political parties that roadblock each other such that it cannot focus any substantial effort on meaningful initiatives for change.
Yeah no doubt. I wonder what a good way forward is there?