China is literally mining the moon for a rare element called Helium 3 that "could solve humanitys energy crisis for the next 10,000 year" utilising fusion technology (Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program)
USA, the "head quarters of reactionaries worldwide", is literally falling to pieces in front of our eyes
Things have never been better.
I don't know how people can be doomers. The situation is excellent.
I watched a DPRK film Myself In The Distant Future recently. Set in 1997 (during the Arduous March which was a famine in DPRK due to the Soviet Union collapsing. Soviet Union supplied DPRK with oil which is needed for an advanced, mechanised agriculture. Cuba went through similar problems. And neither could obtain oil on the international market due to US blockade. Overnight due to no oil their food security collapsed without the ability to power factories/tractors and farms with oil).
And the plot follows a guy that is being a layabout his whole life and after a brief period of courting with a hard working woman who is in the shock brigades (kind of like labour brigades). And having a realisation he wants to achieve something for his country rather than be a layabout he begins working night and day on creating a design converting tractors to running on petrol to running on wood and coal.
Finally he gets the tractor over the hill using this design with the implication being that now DPRK can return to mechanised agriculture despite not having a huge fraternal brother like Soviet Union and despite being blockaded by USA.
And one of the comrades says "there's nothing impossible for the man who loves future."
Even if you concluded that China is "capitalist and has no interest in socialism" it's a win either way
China doesn't care what ideology your country or whos in charge and they don't interfere in the internal politics of countries at all.
They just want to do business.
Even this is a huge step up from the brain wormed Americans/Europeans that believe they have to export every cultural/economic facet like the crusades and use every arm of their tentacles to do this against weaker nations (ignoring the fact China hosts Communist Parties from all over the world to help build them up)
After losing some cash on the GME craziness, I pretty much immediately turned around and set up recurring investments into Chinese green energy funds. I had a whole list of reasons why I thought this was a good move, but the truth is that my dad kept trying to convince me that capitalism can be a force of good if you invest in companies you believe in and I thought this would be a funny way to shut him up the next time we grab lunch.
Anyway, I agree with everything you're saying here. Less imperialism is always a victory in my book.
China is literally mining the moon for a rare element called Helium 3 that “could solve humanitys energy crisis for the next 10,000 year” utilising fusion technology (Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program)
I am very skeptical any of that will make any difference.
Climate change is the only threat that matters and nothing will be done until it is too late. The best countries like China can do is mitigation and on that area they'll fare better for some time. The problem is there is no mitigating 4 degrees warming.
That [insert miracle technology here] could "save the world's energy problems" is hopium in general because IMO it assumes that the problem with capitalism is that we don't already have clean and renewable energy sources that could save the planet. The "energy crisis" isn't an energy crisis it is a fundamental contradiction of capitalism i.e damage to society and the environment doesn't matter only profits.
Think of it like this, the more time we waste the more drastic measures will be needed. At some point the measures will have to be so drastic(e.g ban all fossil fuel usage) that it guarantees these necessary drastic actions wont happen.
Unless someone snaps their finger and makes everyone agree on climate change action tomorrow there is little hope in waiting for the next magical solution.
I'm very, very familiar with the collapse community and how they view the world and if I'm totally honest if their ideology resonated with me at all I'd just go blow my brains out (like so many collapse people do)
It's a very bleak, hand wringing ideology that offers nothing to anyone so I'll just say I disagree. On the eve of the Russian revolution (1913-1917) there was a foreboding sense of doom amongst the middle classes. All poetry took on a bleak tone, artists became absolutely nihilistic and hedonistic and all sorts of end of the world scenarios were propagated amongst the middle classes because they understood Tsarism was dying but didn't realise something else was being born.
In the 80s it was the spectre of nuclear war as USSR died
Doomerism in US is just another manifestation of this inability to cope with the collapse of US empire.
Which is why (US)doomers don't believe anything can be done to change humanitys course
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2716417/Could-moon-fuel-Earth-10-000-years-China-says-mining-helium-satellite-help-solve-worlds-energy-crisis.html
Things have never been better.
I don't know how people can be doomers. The situation is excellent.
I watched a DPRK film Myself In The Distant Future recently. Set in 1997 (during the Arduous March which was a famine in DPRK due to the Soviet Union collapsing. Soviet Union supplied DPRK with oil which is needed for an advanced, mechanised agriculture. Cuba went through similar problems. And neither could obtain oil on the international market due to US blockade. Overnight due to no oil their food security collapsed without the ability to power factories/tractors and farms with oil).
And the plot follows a guy that is being a layabout his whole life and after a brief period of courting with a hard working woman who is in the shock brigades (kind of like labour brigades). And having a realisation he wants to achieve something for his country rather than be a layabout he begins working night and day on creating a design converting tractors to running on petrol to running on wood and coal.
Finally he gets the tractor over the hill using this design with the implication being that now DPRK can return to mechanised agriculture despite not having a huge fraternal brother like Soviet Union and despite being blockaded by USA.
And one of the comrades says "there's nothing impossible for the man who loves future."
You should go read Foundations of Leninism this will straighten your back.
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Even if you concluded that China is "capitalist and has no interest in socialism" it's a win either way
China doesn't care what ideology your country or whos in charge and they don't interfere in the internal politics of countries at all.
They just want to do business.
Even this is a huge step up from the brain wormed Americans/Europeans that believe they have to export every cultural/economic facet like the crusades and use every arm of their tentacles to do this against weaker nations (ignoring the fact China hosts Communist Parties from all over the world to help build them up)
After losing some cash on the GME craziness, I pretty much immediately turned around and set up recurring investments into Chinese green energy funds. I had a whole list of reasons why I thought this was a good move, but the truth is that my dad kept trying to convince me that capitalism can be a force of good if you invest in companies you believe in and I thought this would be a funny way to shut him up the next time we grab lunch.
Anyway, I agree with everything you're saying here. Less imperialism is always a victory in my book.
I am very skeptical any of that will make any difference.
Climate change is the only threat that matters and nothing will be done until it is too late. The best countries like China can do is mitigation and on that area they'll fare better for some time. The problem is there is no mitigating 4 degrees warming.
That [insert miracle technology here] could "save the world's energy problems" is hopium in general because IMO it assumes that the problem with capitalism is that we don't already have clean and renewable energy sources that could save the planet. The "energy crisis" isn't an energy crisis it is a fundamental contradiction of capitalism i.e damage to society and the environment doesn't matter only profits.
Think of it like this, the more time we waste the more drastic measures will be needed. At some point the measures will have to be so drastic(e.g ban all fossil fuel usage) that it guarantees these necessary drastic actions wont happen. Unless someone snaps their finger and makes everyone agree on climate change action tomorrow there is little hope in waiting for the next magical solution.
I'm very, very familiar with the collapse community and how they view the world and if I'm totally honest if their ideology resonated with me at all I'd just go blow my brains out (like so many collapse people do)
It's a very bleak, hand wringing ideology that offers nothing to anyone so I'll just say I disagree. On the eve of the Russian revolution (1913-1917) there was a foreboding sense of doom amongst the middle classes. All poetry took on a bleak tone, artists became absolutely nihilistic and hedonistic and all sorts of end of the world scenarios were propagated amongst the middle classes because they understood Tsarism was dying but didn't realise something else was being born.
In the 80s it was the spectre of nuclear war as USSR died
Doomerism in US is just another manifestation of this inability to cope with the collapse of US empire.
Which is why (US)doomers don't believe anything can be done to change humanitys course