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  • Sleazy_Albanese [comrade/them]
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    10 hours ago

    and with the green energy boom they're leaving us in the dust.

    Im all for it but how is that an economic or strategic advantage?

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      10 hours ago

      They realized that the entire world was going to switch to green energy and started manufacturing solar panels and turbines.

      They saw the next gold rush and set up a shovel factory. They have an incredible manufacturing advantage on breakout technologies that are gonna be the future equivalent of controlling the oil derrick while also having the benefit of undeniable moral high ground while improving air and water quality for their citizens.

      Meanwhile in America one of the two major parties is at "solar power isn't real because the sun goes down and w8ndnpower doesn't work because sometimes the wind isn't blowing and also it gives you cancer."

      It would be like if around 1900 one country was ramping up assembly lines for automobiles and another countrys national policy was that cars are the devil and they were instead focusing completely on doubling down on increasing production of horse feed.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 hours ago

        Meanwhile in America one of the two major parties is at “solar power isn’t real because the sun goes down and w8ndnpower doesn’t work because sometimes the wind isn’t blowing and also it gives you cancer.”

        And the second one is bragging about doing more fracking and more drilling than the above.