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If you put ideology on first place, competition will crush you easily. China don't care about environment and they make high fortune on it, like other countries did previously.

What frustrate me most is how EU sponsor their business from our taxes in name of care about environment. Ie grants on photovoltaic panels that are made from 95% in China or donated EV's that ruin traditional car manufacturing in EU.

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China will (and does to a certain extent) care about the environment because they know it will eventually be a massive problem for them. Their single-party state has only managed to stay in power because it's been very good at driving up the standards of living. And you can only pollute so much before those standards stop going up and people start to get displeased, which is why they've been trying so hard to move up the value chain and export their pollution to other countries (via cheap loans).

Which doesn't change anything I wrote above. Pollution is made and driven by centrally planed economics from our taxes.

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