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China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total (www.ecowatch.com)
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China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could simply not purchase as much crap. Half of the factories that supply the West's goods would go out of business if people stopped buying new phones and shitty plastics every full moon.

[–] Land_Strider 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, that's the freedom way. Gods forbid, they'd be living like the bland Soviet blocks otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Gods forbid, they’d be living like the bland Soviet blocks otherwise.

Please don't exaggerate, to live like in late USSR you'd have to literally outlaw local non-state production.

They'd be living just fine. Everything would be more expensive, but with the way prices are connected to power balance and cheap Chinese workers affecting that balance on the side of producers, maybe not as expensive as people imagine.