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It’s particularly baffling given its role in removing the border that enabled the end of the civil war in our own country.

How glib and superficial and frankly ignorant can you be to dismiss this. How dare you suggest that France and Germany being close allies and friends is a small or even (in the words of many British colleagues) “weird“ and dispensable achievement.

I have had enough of it.

Yes. But I also think it’s not just China. Many historical disruptions have had state sponsorship or supporting industrial policy. I’d go so far as to say “most”.

Fig 3 from our Year in Fire report. Here we show structure loss over the past decade. We are lost more than 2000 homes per year in 5 of the last 10 years. That's too many houses burning down. We MUST do better if we want to have affordable electricity, affordable insurance, and affordable housing.

Seems fitting an island strip-mined to the bedrock for its supplies of fossilized bird shit will now house a machine for strip-mining humanity itself.