They actually had an industrial policy for the last forty years, unlike the United States or Europe, which both abdicated their interests to those of giant corporations whose only goals are reducing costs and increasing profits.
Yeah, tanks have mostly been big juicy targets in Ukraine so far. I guess if you had complete air superiority you could defend them better against drones but it seems like a losing battle to try and gain that kind of completely clear sky when a four man team can put up a UAV and detrack a tank at any point within a few km
Regulation could work, we just need the political will to give these agencies teeth and goals that align with reality
We need to just stop digging stuff out of the ground and burning it for energy. Until that fundamental realization sets in, we’re stuck with an increasingly worsening climate crisis.
Well, there’s always the second strike nuclear submarines even if you did that. There’s a reason the triad is the keystone of nuclear power.
Why is it that we can identify systemic problems, but never propose public policy as a solution? Everything has to come down to the consumer seeking out information and making the sometimes more costly or inconvenient choice on their own, while their neighbors all go on blissfully unaware or uncaring
Bro please just a little more data and we’ll have AGI, please just make another internet worth of data please bro
Yeah, like almost every issue in this country, it’s the lack of sound policy, good regulation, and state capacity. We could have nice things if 45% of the population wasn’t convinced every government initiative was some new world order plot.
Hope it comes equipped with a laser
It’s 70 degrees in Chicago in February. We can’t afford one step back.
You mean like this piece of legislation he pushed through, which is basically the first major bill in the US which addresses climate change? https://earthjustice.org/brief/2022/what-the-inflation-reduction-act-means-for-climate
Marginal gains add up to the changes we need. All or nothing thinking will kill us all.
The climate crisis is an ongoing gradient of “this is bad” to “humans are extinct” and every tenth of a degree we can prevent is worthwhile.
They were all just waiting to revert to their focus on quarterly profits over any kind of long term sustainability. They just needed the permission of going with the herd so none of them could be singled out as a “bad guy”
You could look at this and see it as pandering, which it is, but I also take it as a decent sign that they have to at least pay lip service to renewables since fossil fuels have become a significant liability in many eyes.