• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    His comments highlight the complexity for firms desperately needing supplies and parts manufactured in China, but not the competition from complete kits made there that undercut Western firms.

    We can’t afford not to buy parts so other companies can assemble them…

    But we also can’t allow China to sell complete units because then those middle men companies can’t make money…

    I’m no climate scientist, but at this point I have no sympathy for energy companies or their profits.

    It’s insane lots of world leaders say climate change is an important issue, then turn around and tariff or outright ban green energy products from China because they’re so cheap everyone would buy them.

    Just sounds like corporate welfare where whatever maximizes their profits is necessary, and everything that doesn’t gets banned.

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    5 months ago

    What is he waffling about, chinas renewables are growing faster than any other country

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      5 months ago

      If you read the article you will see that it is about importing materials like rare earth metals from China

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    A good solution to this is for less dependency on them. This is the nature of them taking too much, and that’s just… really not going to work out great for them, nor anyone.

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      That anybody can disagree with this is truly flabbergasting. China should not be the sole decider of whether our planet lives or dies. I don’t… I don’t get how anyone, even the Chinese, can disagree with that.

      Update: I think it’s the petrochemical industry. They’ve corrupted all the green energy focused subs here super badly from what I’ve seen so far. I think we’ve caught their attention already - which may actually be a good sign. We must be doing something effective enough to warrant it.