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Why China is Winning the Clean Energy Race (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. politicians have been warning for years that America couldn't let China win the clean energy race. That's exactly what has happened, with the trends most stark in electric cars, solar and nuclear energy. Why it matters: Building for the last decade, these trends have accelerated in the last couple of years. Politicians and business leaders said America's dominance in this space would bring jobs to the U.S. and security to our clean-energy resources, and now both of those goals are at risk. Why China is doing this: It needs to literally energize its 1.4 billion people, both how they travel and how they power their homes. Its leadership feels compelled to do it in a cleaner way than the U.S. did. Air pollution is at dangerously high levels across many of China's cities. People are seeing and feeling health repercussions of China's dependence on fossil fuel-fired cars and power plants in an acute way. Traditional air pollution, not climate change, is a big driver.
>"But the GOP got there in part by fighting against the Democrat party, which had put itself on the side of Progress."
LOL. I suppose that depends on how you define "progress". I would hardly use that label for either party. My definition of progress is change that makes the government comply with the Constitution, first. Instead of progress, we just get a larger and larger Federal government that taxes more and spends more than ever, every year, and now a 20 TRILLION dollar national debt to go with it. Abuse of Executive powers for decades. Abuse of police powers in the name of "safety." Stealing or interfering with powers specifically granted to States (or the People). Creation of so many laws and non-representative regulations that it chokes all markets and civil liberties while creating a hugely complex legal system that nobody can navigate. Rewarding people for not working or making up "disabilities." Raising entitlements to unheard of levels. Bailing out private market failures to reward them so they can do it again and again. Pushing up education costs through the roof due to unilateral funding without any real results requirements. Tax codes that are insanely complicated and impose legislation through code. Astronomical military spending and with associated waste. Crazy copyright and patent laws that destroy rather than protect learning and innovation. I could go on for pages, but I think you get the idea.
Progress. Yeah, right.