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Creator & Steward of https://t.co/fgdCiUUJVk. Topics: #nature #complexity #housing #history #geopolitics #macroeconomics #money.
Feb 2, 2020 49 tweets 54 min read
X: What's your take on #ClimateChange?

Me: The real issues are not about it.

X: But climate change/crisis is everywhere, in the news.

Me: So what?

X: What are the real issues then?

Me: It's about wrong intent, imbalance, and negative externalities.

X: ?!? Me: In short we are consuming more resources than the Earth's replenishment capacity (unbalancing its natural cycles), polluting more than the Earth's regenerative capacity (causing negative externalities everywhere like loss of biodiversity and plastic accumulation), and...
Jan 13, 2020 22 tweets 28 min read
A thread about how well #China is playing the international game to become the most prominent economy in this decade, by @swardley. @swardley Some key points about #China's long-run #strategy:

- For the #CPC (Communist Party of China) the #market is only a tool to leverage the power of the Chinese people, culture, and state, and not the holy sacred truth, as most western liberals believe. See @swardley's explanation.