If this is questionable, what alternative do you suggest?

Yeah, and let us not forget that China wants to to the same with Taiwan.

Edit title for clarity. Thanks.

Just keep in mind that renewable energy is not really implemented for sustainability, but mainly for profit. Also, due to capitalism the energy consumption keeps increasing.

What do you understand by capitalism? China -a self-defined socialist country- is almost a role model for what goes wrong in the fight for climate change in the way you are describing. China’s fossil fuel production and consumption are outpacing its increase in renewable energy and that is the reason why the country is -contrary what Beijing’s propaganda wants the world make to believe- desperately failing in its climate policy.

I don’t know of these particular European/African projects’ environmental impacts, but I don’t question them either. But this has nothing to do with ‘capitalism’ or any perceived societal model.

Edit: This world map gives a first view where our global fight against climate change stands. (Hint: ‘Capitalist’ Europe is not good and must do a lot more, but we are far ahead in the path compared to others.)

Second edit: After a closer look into the study itself, I have to revise my opinion from above and say it is quite generic at best. The study authors are citing exclusively secondary sources, there appear to be no own research, and even the report says that European investments in the African countries are -though substantial- only a fraction of the total foreign direct investments (in case of Egypt, for example, it is 25%). They don’t even say where the rest comes from. Europe can always do better, sure, but this whole study is just a sequence of mostly web sources assembled to foster a certain narrative imo.

Germany says ‘blackmail’ of Ukraine will bring more war

Germany’s foreign minister Annalena Baerbock says Europe must put pressure on the US to stand by its European allies and warned against forcing Kyiv to surrender […] Baerbock’s statements were similar to those of other European leaders discussing how to approach likely changes to transatlantic relations during Trump’s second term.

@RangerJosey@lemmy.ml

Your statement is outright false and dehumanizing. As the article says, amongst others, the Vietnamese government is “imprisoning individuals who express legitimate concerns on environmental protection, labour and land rights violations”, and is committing severe crimes against humanity, e.g., the systematic suppression of individuals and organisations working on sustainable development.

Just read the article.

Calling this “successful” is dehumanizing and disgusting.

Russia targets infrastructure in Ukraine’s east and south in extensive overnight air attack

Russia launched 161 drones and a dozen missiles overnight, targeting gas infrastructure in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region and hitting power supply in the southern Odesa region for a second night in a row, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.

The attack was part of an intensified assault on Ukraine’s energy system over the past month as Russia discusses ending its war in Ukraine with the new U.S. administration of President Donald Trump, who has blamed Ukraine for Russia’s invasion.

I am not sure whether I understand all comments (and whether all understand the article), so just for clarification: This is not a deliberate attack against Poland. This is space debris that crashed in Poland accidentally. It can happen anywhere anytime, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s from SpaceX, NASA, ESA, China, Russia, India or any other country. The point is that we have too many of this debris in our earth’s orbit, and we needed international collaboration to eliminate or at least mitigate the risk of falling debris. As the expert in the added article said:

Near-Earth orbital space is finite. We should be treating it like a finite resource. We should be managing it holistically across countries, with coordination and planning and these sorts of things. But we don’t do that.

A person being “detained” could literally just be a traffic stop or any other interaction with a police officer.

No, a traffic stop or an interaction with a police officer isn’t a detention. We are talking here about people who are wrongfully imprisoned for several years.

The vast majority of these people are wrongfully detained after what is called a “closed door trial”. Essentially, this means that often not even their lawyers know what they are accused of. Very often, for example, authorities say it is for “espionage”, though it remains fully unclear what this alleged espionage would have been.

You’ll find a lot of credible reports from very reliable sources. During the pandemic, the situation in China regarding this practice is said to have worsened.

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This is the same weird pattern of conversation we and a couple of others have had in this community in another thread. I am sorry, but your behaviour is again very weird, and it seems even more so as it comes from a moderator. I don’t understand why you are getting offensive if someone else has a different opinion or corrects you of a simple mistake everyone of us happens to make once in a while.

I have just said what the facts are as it’s clearly visible on the site. That’s not rude, and I have not ‘chosen to believe’ something. I have nothing more to add here.

I don’t accuse you -nor anyone else- of nothing. I am just stating the facts.

Remarks like the one on the site like “What follows is an edited transcript” are done by journalists to signal that the interviewee hasn’t said so literally, because the spoken word is different from the written one. They edit minor things from the transcript. That doesn’t mean that the article has been edited.

And as we can see from the data on the original site, the article has indeed been not edited.

The posted version was published yesterday, 18 Feb at 17:08, and there is no edited version now as I write this comment. It’s the same version.

Yes, I did read the interview. This is why I am wondering about your comment.

Just read the article and about China’s new ‘guidelines.’

Btw, there are around 10,000 foreigners wrongfully detained in China, most of them are not officially named by their countries.

What are ‘all the questions about an actual own plan’ she dodges?

Could be, I read ‘slams’, but it’s not much difference anyway :-)

Not sure if I understand you right, but unless they do some A/B testing my headline above is the original one. I didn’t edit.

Have you been living under a rock the last couple of years? That’s been basically the playbook of the populist right and the main reason for their recent success. They play that game of pretending to be victims very well.

First, I think your explanation for the rise of the far right is hopelessly oversimplified to a degree that’s its wrong. But whatever the truth is, there is no reason for being offensive.

@poVoq@slrpnk.net

Good. I hope others follow.