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Re:Decoupling isn't phoney – The global trading system is st... by hakfoo on Saturday September 02, 2023 @02:13PM (#37364017)
I guess that's the opposite side of the coin I'm looking at. Being able to remove "bad actors" also means it's too easy to remove "good actors" who might brush people the wrong way. Democratic leadership will optimize for easy answers and never saying "no", because the alternative is political suicide.

Imagine if Joe Biden went on TV tomorrow and said "we're taxing gasoline to USD100 per gallon to force private cars off the road. It's gonna be tough for a while, but you'll thank me in 2050 when the public transit is fully fleshed out and we hit a 1.5c climate goal." He'd be driven out of office in favour of someone who ran on a campaign of "let's roast the next generation so you can save a dime at the pump today." OTOH, Xi Jinping could probably get away with it.

Re:Decoupling isn't phoney – The global trading system is st... by Lio on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:54AM (#37368851)
This sounds like Stockholm Syndrome.

Xi isn't enacting enlightened laws to protect the environment. Quite the opposite. He's opening more and more coal fired power stations. He doesn't care if the rivers overflow.

You're saying "but he could do good", he won't. Dictators never do.