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I really enjoyed that !! Thank you for blowing away some of the fog, over the valley , so some of us are able to see the wood through the trees.. Splendid Sir
personally I think the nation state itself is the biggest barrier to addressing this issue. it's such a reified and deeply entrenched concept that that may sound absurd, but it's this that holds us back, for many reasons, not least because it's this that the mode of production relies on to continue extraction accumulation and preservation of wealth. As Sagan said in 85, we need to do this collaboratively, and this source of division will only hold us back.
That's an interesting idea. I think the idea of a nation state goes back to ancient Egypt. Without the organisation of a state, I suppose other states would be able to take advantage the stateless people?
@@CountEverything Yeah, that's actually a good example of what I'm getting at with how deeply it's entrenched. The nation state is a modern phenomenon of the enlightenment. One of the 3 paradoxes that Benedict Anderson posits in his seminal _Imagined Communities_ as perplexing theorists of nationalism is the "objective modernity of nations to the historian's eye vs. their subjective antiquity in the eyes of nationalists". A perhaps more immediately accessible work is Hadžidedić's _No capitalism without nationalism,_ which explains what it says "on the tin". In the spirit of Anderson's great work, what I think Sagan was telling us is that, in order to solve (if it's even possible at this stage) this problem we collectively find ourselves in, we need a reimagining of what our human community is, and, I'd add, with the concept of ecology at its heart.
CountEverything, thank you. Allowed me to point It is not the discussion about what kind of political ideology is good, but instead you are telling the audience that one large nation China does devote to fight Climate Crisis and have some positive outcome. I personally view this as your key point and I appreciate this. This certainly gives us hope and boost of will to keep fighting. One more good news I like to share with you is that Biden does put efforts on protecting the projects funding for climate crisis and so at least parts could be kept going.
Thanks Jonathan. Yes, I think that most people don't appreciate what China does on climate. I hope Biden is able to protect some climate projects before he leaves.
I have two old computers, a note book and a laptop both circa 2008. About six years ago I gave both a half life upgrade, new batteries, solid state hard drives, a full house of fastest compatible RAM and switched them both to Unix14 with the Raspberry Pi desktop. The project cost was about $220 for both. They both now go like a train, certainly as fast as I need. I have had no software or compatibility issues but confess to having a friend who is a Unix whizz and has helped sort out any issues that crop up. Amazingly, the hardware (screen, keyboard, sockets, sound card etc) still work fine.
Well done. To be able to use a video editor reliably, just about every part of the computer would have needed to be upgraded. Not really possible with a laptop.
i can recommend getting a desktop tower PC for editing videos. You can get a graphics card much cheaper and you can replace parts of the pc if they brake.
It's too late now. It's on the plane on it's way. I did think about a tower, but you have to buy a lot of extra stuff - camera, mic, speakers. A laptop just seemed much more straight forward and more practical in a little office.
I like your take a lot despite it's quite biased. But it's good because the normal conversation about China is biased towards the other end. I spent this week with Derrick Jensen's books, so I'm naturally in the mood of "modernity as a whole and most of its members are insane, the culture is driven by a death urge, an urge to destroy life". From this viewpoint I easily accept that the old Chinese way and their seeking for dominance is not as sinful as the Western media typically paints it.
Here in Canada. Our government mandated, all EV by 2035. Everyone gripped that they can't afford 100k EVs. 2 years on, China offers to sell us EVs for half the price. Our government slaps a 100%. Tariff on them🤦🏻♂️
In the UK the car brand new electric cars are being sold 1/3 off just so the manufacturers can meet the climate change targets. And still people aren't buying them.
The Chinese cannot reduce their CO2 emissions without deindustrializing, which they will not do. Global CO2 emissions continue to increase every year. This will likely continue until the complete collapse of global industrialized civilization. So, that's something to look forward to, I suppose.
Be careful what you wish for: the collapse of industrialised civilization will cause unprecedented misery, as billions of people fail to adapt or survive in a Mad Max-type hellscape.
@@jonb4722 Wish? Hardly. Just calling it as a see it. If the prognosis alarms you, then you might want to adjust your expectations downward. As for misery, oh I can imagine a lot of misery. I don't like it, but I can't see a way out either. The adult thing to do is stay ahead of it, and don't get run over.
Given the west exported its industries to China isn’t it up the west to stop demanding the goods China exports to the West. China also is leading the world in transitioning away from fossil fuels and supplying the West such technology.
There has been an explosion in Chinese EVs... also in exploding EVs! 😂😂 But seriously, if they pass the safety check, they should let people like me buy one, it's the only way I could ever afford a car... it would mean I could get a better job at a school that is otherwise unaccessible by public transport...
Yes. Europe and the US don't build enough EVs and are now restricting imports. Although electric cars will have a role in the future, such ambitious cuts are needed to our co2 emissions that what we really need is public transport, walking and cycling.
Count, China didn't become "great" off their own bat. They opened the door to Western corporations to set up shop with the prime Chinese cheap labour. This arguably began when Nixon shook hands in 1972. So the Westerners brought in all the expertise, know-how and 'managerials' to set up shop. 50 years ago, China was still rice paddies and bicycles. It would have been impossible to reach the heights they did even just 25 years later without outside assistance....But they did invent pasta, haha.
It will be interesting to see if China can make the leap from duplicating what the rest of the world produces to coming up with their own innovations. There is a theory that the type of art you get depends on the political system. Ancient Greek drama was written in Athens, a democracy while Shakespeare was writing under a monarch. Is it possible for people to be innovative and creative under a dictator?
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If you've enjoyed any of the videos on the channel and want to support me, then you're welcome to buy me a slice of (virtual) pizza via the buymeacofffe website - www.buymeacoffee.com/counteverything
There are no benefits to you, apart from receiving my thanks. I don't need the money, but I do sometimes need the encouragement.
I really enjoyed that !! Thank you for blowing away some of the fog, over the valley , so some of us are able to see the wood through the trees..
Splendid Sir
Thanks Jimmy. Watching the video so often while editing it, you lose all sense of if it's any good or not, so I'm glad you liked it.
Thanks; this is really helpful information and well presented
Thanks Jerry.
We have a lot to learn from China
Yes. Let's not repeat the mistakes of the past.
personally I think the nation state itself is the biggest barrier to addressing this issue. it's such a reified and deeply entrenched concept that that may sound absurd, but it's this that holds us back, for many reasons, not least because it's this that the mode of production relies on to continue extraction accumulation and preservation of wealth. As Sagan said in 85, we need to do this collaboratively, and this source of division will only hold us back.
That's an interesting idea. I think the idea of a nation state goes back to ancient Egypt.
Without the organisation of a state, I suppose other states would be able to take advantage the stateless people?
@@CountEverything Yeah, that's actually a good example of what I'm getting at with how deeply it's entrenched. The nation state is a modern phenomenon of the enlightenment. One of the 3 paradoxes that Benedict Anderson posits in his seminal _Imagined Communities_ as perplexing theorists of nationalism is the "objective modernity of nations to the historian's eye vs. their subjective antiquity in the eyes of nationalists".
A perhaps more immediately accessible work is Hadžidedić's _No capitalism without nationalism,_ which explains what it says "on the tin".
In the spirit of Anderson's great work, what I think Sagan was telling us is that, in order to solve (if it's even possible at this stage) this problem we collectively find ourselves in, we need a reimagining of what our human community is, and, I'd add, with the concept of ecology at its heart.
CountEverything, thank you. Allowed me to point It is not the discussion about what kind of political ideology is good, but instead you are telling the audience that one large nation China does devote to fight Climate Crisis and have some positive outcome. I personally view this as your key point and I appreciate this. This certainly gives us hope and boost of will to keep fighting. One more good news I like to share with you is that Biden does put efforts on protecting the projects funding for climate crisis and so at least parts could be kept going.
Thanks Jonathan. Yes, I think that most people don't appreciate what China does on climate. I hope Biden is able to protect some climate projects before he leaves.
Luv this. Extremely informative thx 👍🏽
Thanks. Thumbs Up (I don't know how to do emojis.).
Very interesting. I learnt something here.
Thanks John.
Thanks for another interesting video
Thanks Jim.
That was great! Thank you.
Thanks. I wasn't sure how popular this video would be, so I'm glad you liked it.
I have two old computers, a note book and a laptop both circa 2008. About six years ago I gave both a half life upgrade, new batteries, solid state hard drives, a full house of fastest compatible RAM and switched them both to Unix14 with the Raspberry Pi desktop. The project cost was about $220 for both.
They both now go like a train, certainly as fast as I need. I have had no software or compatibility issues but confess to having a friend who is a Unix whizz and has helped sort out any issues that crop up. Amazingly, the hardware (screen, keyboard, sockets, sound card etc) still work fine.
Well done. To be able to use a video editor reliably, just about every part of the computer would have needed to be upgraded. Not really possible with a laptop.
i can recommend getting a desktop tower PC for editing videos. You can get a
graphics card much cheaper and you can replace parts of the pc if they brake.
It's too late now. It's on the plane on it's way.
I did think about a tower, but you have to buy a lot of extra stuff - camera, mic, speakers. A laptop just seemed much more straight forward and more practical in a little office.
I like your take a lot despite it's quite biased. But it's good because the normal conversation about China is biased towards the other end. I spent this week with Derrick Jensen's books, so I'm naturally in the mood of "modernity as a whole and most of its members are insane, the culture is driven by a death urge, an urge to destroy life". From this viewpoint I easily accept that the old Chinese way and their seeking for dominance is not as sinful as the Western media typically paints it.
Thanks. I tried to have a positive take on China because it's become so vilified for its emissions.
I don't trust either side. It is all bull shit really. I want to farm and raise my family in peace and harmony.
I suppose sooner or later we'll have to choose one side.
Here in Canada. Our government mandated, all EV by 2035. Everyone gripped that they can't afford 100k EVs. 2 years on, China offers to sell us EVs for half the price. Our government slaps a 100%. Tariff on them🤦🏻♂️
In the UK the car brand new electric cars are being sold 1/3 off just so the manufacturers can meet the climate change targets. And still people aren't buying them.
The Chinese cannot reduce their CO2 emissions without deindustrializing, which they will not do. Global CO2 emissions continue to increase every year. This will likely continue until the complete collapse of global industrialized civilization. So, that's something to look forward to, I suppose.
Agreed
Be careful what you wish for: the collapse of industrialised civilization will cause unprecedented misery, as billions of people fail to adapt or survive in a Mad Max-type hellscape.
@@jonb4722 Wish? Hardly. Just calling it as a see it. If the prognosis alarms you, then you might want to adjust your expectations downward. As for misery, oh I can imagine a lot of misery. I don't like it, but I can't see a way out either. The adult thing to do is stay ahead of it, and don't get run over.
I keep trying to be positive.
Given the west exported its industries to China isn’t it up the west to stop demanding the goods China exports to the West. China also is leading the world in transitioning away from fossil fuels and supplying the West such technology.
There has been an explosion in Chinese EVs... also in exploding EVs! 😂😂 But seriously, if they pass the safety check, they should let people like me buy one, it's the only way I could ever afford a car... it would mean I could get a better job at a school that is otherwise unaccessible by public transport...
Yes. Europe and the US don't build enough EVs and are now restricting imports.
Although electric cars will have a role in the future, such ambitious cuts are needed to our co2 emissions that what we really need is public transport, walking and cycling.
@CountEverything agree, which is why I spend an hour and a half on the bus with my shopping trolley to go to Costco!
Count, China didn't become "great" off their own bat. They opened the door to Western corporations to set up shop with the prime Chinese cheap labour. This arguably began when Nixon shook hands in 1972. So the Westerners brought in all the expertise, know-how and 'managerials' to set up shop. 50 years ago, China was still rice paddies and bicycles. It would have been impossible to reach the heights they did even just 25 years later without outside assistance....But they did invent pasta, haha.
It goes both ways. The North and West would’ve economically collapsed a long time ago if they didn’t have cheap labor from China
It will be interesting to see if China can make the leap from duplicating what the rest of the world produces to coming up with their own innovations.
There is a theory that the type of art you get depends on the political system. Ancient Greek drama was written in Athens, a democracy while Shakespeare was writing under a monarch. Is it possible for people to be innovative and creative under a dictator?
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Thanks David. I look forward to your usual comment now. I'm glad you're supporting the channel.