Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "BBC News"
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Hello from Shanghai. My community went under lockdown starting Apr.30 afternoon. We're now on day 13. In my community, we can walk around outside, but not leave the community. Covid testing every 48 hours. Things are obviously tight. No restaurants or shops do deliveries. Community groups are being set up to try and order basic necessities. We have to do this, because you can only order in bulk due to the lack of delivery personnel. Yesterday, we ordered 1800 eggs to be delivered, the minimum order the seller would accept. This all happens on WeChat chat-groups.
We've received two hand-outs from government of basic foods: Carrots, onions, some rice, some frozen chicken. It's enough to keep you alive, but that's it.
I'm slowly running out of drinking water (tap water is not great), cooking oil, and Western food items like butter, coffee, milk, cheese, cream, etc. Forget about snacks and candy, or condiments. I still have some spaghetti, but no tomatoes, some flour for bread making, but nothing to put on it. Apparently, we still have at least 14 days to go of this....
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@中央山脈-c4i Ok, perhaps I misunderstood you. You mention a 'deal'. What kind of deal, if not a deal about the future Central Committee? So far, you are hypothesizing. That's interesting, but it's not proof of anything.
Personally, Hu looks very confused to me, like someone with dementia. I would say he is halfway between Joe Biden and an assisted care facility. Sad, though, as he is still relatively young, only 79. My dad is over 90 and still clear headed.
Also note that Party elders are mostly there out of respect. Hu doesn't have any official position or membership of any political organ (apart from being a party member). If Jiang Zemin had been healthy enough, he would likely have attended, too.
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@Diegomkz " a big part of industrialized countries consume things that are not necessary". Yes, there is no doubt that we in the developed world overconsume to a large degree. I agree with that. And I suspect that many of the people who decry overconsumption also happily order a bunch of clothes on Shein on a regular basis. Nothing against women because of that, but it shows that our desires often override our more thoughtful plans.
I used to be part of a large cycling community, many of whom took pride in their zero-carbon transportation mode. And yet, many of them also bragged about the 4, 6, 8 bicycles they owned, completely needlessly.
If you want to fight overconsumption, you have to fight the human desire for admiration, respect, love. People can't help themselves.
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@yashwardhansable5187 Your example addresses inequality. I'm discussing growth, not inequality. You can have growth and equality, or growth and inequality, or no growth and either.
However, let's use your example of country B, where people all earn $300, but with no growth. Every year they make $300.-
Country B imports some (maybe just a few) goods from another country, country C. C has growth, C has technological development and they make new smart phones every year. Eventually, their phones cost more than $300 and people in B can no longer afford them. B starts falling further and further behind. Eventually, B becomes an underdeveloped country, compared to C, and falls into perpetual poverty.
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@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039 The sixth mass extinction, a.k.a. 'The Holocene Extinction' has been under way for 15,000 years and includes extinction of megafauna done by our ancient ancestors (woolly mammoth, etc.) and the deliberate extinction by hunters in the 18th and 19th centuries of several species, the Dodo, for example (the flightless bird, not the YouTube channel). We became aware of this problem over 50 years ago, which is why the WWF was established. In recent decades we have become much better at mitigating and preventing the extinction of further species. There are large inter-governmental initiatives underway to prevent species loss, something that has never happened before, and countries across the world are working to protect endangered animals. Yes, there is still species loss, but it's not always due to human activity. Yes, we have a problem, I recognize that, but I am optimistic that we're moving in the right direction.
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