> China has reduced its pollution massively since the 90s while aggressively expanding its industrial output. And they have done it without excessive bureaucracy
replyChina's system is authoritarian state-capitalism. It is precisely the bureaucracy that steered it's industries toward this outcome.
It helps you can buy an electric car in China for 1/4th the price as California. They also massively invested in every sort of energy (not just solar) where it's cheap and affordable to develop industry. Everyone obsesses about labour costs but almost everything is easier and cheaper to build in China because they allow stuff to be built there. Including the workers far lower housing, utilities, fuel, and food prices which lower the cost of living.
replyThat's because the bureaucracy there is making stuff get built instead of making stuff not get built, and it planned all the externalities too.
replyDon't forget Insurance companies! They define and enforce a lot of the requirements too, it's also why all the new parks look the same.
replyIt really helps when the government can just disappear someone when they don't play along with government edicts.
replyDon't worry, we in the US will get to enjoy that soon enough.
reply> In the US environmental laws are not about the environment at all.
replythat is literally nonsense .. lazy nonsense, ill-willed nonsense.. Ignorant nonsense.
literally four seconds to search " history of us environmental law"