With its woeful trade deal, Europe prostrated itself before the president. We need a leader who will tell him where to shove it, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
Because neoliberals get weak in the knees when fascists look at them.
In this new era, Russia, China and the US all want a return to spheres of influence and the rule of power in place of the rule of law, just with varying appetites for chaos (Russia) versus stability (China)
It’s been really annoying seeing Europeans lament the death of so-called international rule of law when, like, seriously? Tell me again how America doesn’t consider Latin America and the Middle East its sphere of influence that it gets to do whatever it wants with? Can y’all stop using “rule of law” to mean “good things for white people”?
Europe-based economic activity is among the least carbon-intensive in the world;
Isn’t part/most of this that Europe simply exported the carbon-intensive stuff abroad? Not exactly a success story IMO.
Even when you account for offshore emissions the EU’s carbon footprint has been going down since around 2010.
That doesn’t negate the existence of neocolonialism and it’s nowhere near enough to fix climate change, but the EU’s population is roughly constant, both it and China are reducing their manufacturing emissions, and economic growth in the EU has been slow and services-based. Like where would a supposed increase in emissions even come from? There’s nowhere to go but down.
I know good news feel unbelievable these days but this is one of them. Unfortunately this factually incorrect belief that emitting any less carbon is impossible without serious impact to QoL is why the european ecologist movements have lost a lot of steam in the past few years which is absolutely maddening because it’s empirically incorrect.
Because neoliberals get weak in the knees when fascists look at them.
It’s been really annoying seeing Europeans lament the death of so-called international rule of law when, like, seriously? Tell me again how America doesn’t consider Latin America and the Middle East its sphere of influence that it gets to do whatever it wants with? Can y’all stop using “rule of law” to mean “good things for white people”?
Isn’t part/most of this that Europe simply exported the carbon-intensive stuff abroad? Not exactly a success story IMO.
Even when you account for offshore emissions the EU’s carbon footprint has been going down since around 2010.
That doesn’t negate the existence of neocolonialism and it’s nowhere near enough to fix climate change, but the EU’s population is roughly constant, both it and China are reducing their manufacturing emissions, and economic growth in the EU has been slow and services-based. Like where would a supposed increase in emissions even come from? There’s nowhere to go but down.
I know good news feel unbelievable these days but this is one of them. Unfortunately this factually incorrect belief that emitting any less carbon is impossible without serious impact to QoL is why the european ecologist movements have lost a lot of steam in the past few years which is absolutely maddening because it’s empirically incorrect.
nah, they say “What’s up, Dad?”