Where? There is half a world between Europe and China. China would have to conquer most of Asia before they can come close enough to Europe for a war even in a different country can be practical. Look at the bloody map if you are geographically challenged.
Given that you are politically challenged, look at the Belt and Roads initiative and China's Neo-Colonialism in Africa and Latin America, among other places.
How did we survive the 19th & 20th century? We HAD free immigration to the USA. It DID work. We are living proof of its success.
The people immigrating wanted to assimilate. They overwhelmingly wanted to become Americans. The cultural melting pot worked.
It's our identity politics and self-balkanization that makes things more difficult.
Ellis Island didn't really have much meaningful vetting. Basically anybody who could physically make it to the U.S. was allowed in provided they didn't have a dread disease that was easily identifiable based on the rudimentary medical knowledge of the time and wasn't some notorious anarchist. It's not like Ellis Island had full access to Irish or Italian criminal records and could do proper background checks.
For the technology of the day they did well. For example they had officials trained in prison tattoos to help with the criminal aspect.
Mass immigration could actually be done much better today.
Absolutely, my point is that we don't even do things as well as they once did at Ellis.
You could allow mass immigrants
There needs to be some sort of throttling of the numbers, it can't be unlimited.. There needs to be a some assimilation. We can't just balkanize, that it counter productive, an un-American. Our greatest strength is being that cultural melting pot.
The more coordination and collaboration there is, the more benefit there is to doing it remotely. If you're not getting those benefits, you're doing it very wrong.
Any time you think there is a universal, one size fits all solution, you are probably mistaken.
Where I work, we get way more benefits from collaborating over the Internet, and much more friction trying to do the same thing in-person.
And I've seen exactly the opposite. It depends in the people. It depends on their respective locations. It depends on the product.
As I said, It works well for some project and it works poorly for others.
A war between Europe and China is geographically impractical.
Not really, the war will be fought on someone else's territory.
Sounds like his argument is that we'll have so many out-of-work software engineers and customer service reps desperate to pick crops and nail shingles on roofs for $16/hour that we won't need migrant labor anymore. Not sure that sounds like a very hopeful future....
No problem, some of us software engineers are so old we had to take various shop classes while in high school.
Certainly the U.S. doesn't "need" mass immigration.
I am reading online all the time that the US would have no concerns with population decline if it just stopped being so racist and filled the gap with millions and millions of immigrants.
A country can only accommodate new arrivals at a certain rate. Immigration has to be bound by that rate. The US needs immigrants. But it also needs to know who is coming, some background screening needs to be done, a health check needs to be done. We did such things at Ellis Island for many decades, allowing vast number to enter at the rate we could accommodate.
In the article, it says the people were illegals who came here under Biden, were pardoned, and were going to immigration court... which means they're not _legal_ until they get the paperwork that says they are.
Many of the individuals ICE is intentionally going after have had their day in immigration court and a judge denied their asylum claim and issued an order of removal (ie deportation).
Others are also getting caught up in the process, but that's a result of sanctuary policies to a large degree. Don't allow ICE to pick up people at a local jail, don't provide crowd control, that just forces ICE to go into neighborhoods and to do so in greater numbers. Other states and cities are cooperating with ICE, just as everyone did under Obama, when ICE was able to deport large numbers will near zero drama.
You never mention China retiring the old dirtier coal plants and replacing them with more efficient coal plants that are being used more like peaker plants
What I do point out is that (1) China is burning coal as fast as they can dig it up or import it. That renewables are supplementing coal not displacing it. (2) The use of coal is driven by CCP policy. (3) China remains the #1 global pollution. (4) China is allowed to continue to increase it pollution until 2030 under the Paris accord and the CCP is hinting it may continue to do so after 2030.
New plant, old plant, isn't changing the above. The thing you are ignoring is that electrical power generation is merely one sector. And drops of coal in one sector allows that coal to be used in a different sector. China is burning coal as fast as they can dig it up or import it.
"Per capita is used to greenwash" - that sort of dumb rationale is only used by dirty wasters.
Bad guess. Per capita is a terrible metric for something primarily the result of industrial policy. GDP is commonly used, for example:
"Even if its emissions fall in 2025 as expected, however, China is bound to miss multiple important climate targets this year. This includes targets to reduce its carbon intensity – the emissions per unit of GDP – to strictly control coal consumption growth and new coal-power capacity,"
https://www.carbonbrief.org/an...
GDP is also a terrible metric.
It's far better than per capita when it comes to comparing industrial policy. Note its use in the following citation regarding "carbon intensity".
"Even if its emissions fall in 2025 as expected, however, China is bound to miss multiple important climate targets this year. This includes targets to reduce its carbon intensity – the emissions per unit of GDP – to strictly control coal consumption growth and new coal-power capacity,"
https://www.carbonbrief.org/an...
Excessive login or logout messages are a sure sign of senility.
