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Isn't it villainous to still be using and forcing a energy means that is outdated and going to kill us all? Like I love these nothing burger journalists in the US the say in a paragraph what could be done in a sentence. Meanwhile China very much accepts climate change is real and doing what they can to realistically change it and create resilient infrastructure in preparation for it.
Right? Simply put that strikes me as the analysis of a deeply unserious mind.
It’s not fucking Marvel or whatever, where “some circles” decide who the villain is based on vibes; but rather it’s villainous because of: -strip mining, acid mine drainage runoff, acid rain/sulfur dioxide/nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, co2 greenhouse effect and ocean acidification to name a few
I think the author means that coal use isn't seen as a political red line, and coal plants are allowed to function temporarily when there is a demand surge, with the understanding that this is only a temporary stopgap until enough battery capacity is built.
Could be he meant it like that but honestly just outright say that China does not deny reality and understands the costs of coal within the long term (i.e. climate change). Just comes off as a nothing burger of centralism when phrased so noncommittally.
It's not noncommittal, it's editorial. The journalist is trying to say that moral framing around coal is one of the problems with US energy policy, whereas China has a "more pragmatic" framing, which has to do with economics and strategy. This is not reporting, this is analysis, and the journalist has no real basis for any of it. They are cherry picking facts and building a narrative.
I feel it is, the entire focus of western journalism is a blase noncommittal tone that says a lot and asserts nothing, analysis needs a better conclusion than just "welp China is doing better than us cuss of vague things". It's just grating as the tone of western pop journalism presents itself within a legitimate sense whilst not truly centering around anything outside of acceptable for a general audience and most importantly those that own the actual site/paper itself.
Agreed in part, I just don't think journalism should be doing as much analysis as Western journalism does, despite that analysis being merely vague bullshit, unfounded assumptions, and thinly veiled screening for journalists to write fan fic or wish casting
I think any analysis will always be partly or completely toothless when done in the west under the purview of capital as it removes any materialist take that respects reality. Then again the only good journalists are those that get the annual CIA award of excellence twice to the head.
Those journalists, the ones who get whacked, they usually don't write analysis. They usually just report facts that are very dangerous. That's the difference for me. Some people use analysis to chase down the facts and report the facts that create incontrovertible narrative. Others use cherry picked facts as cover for their desire to publish paper thin analyses in order to fit their own brain wormed narrative.
I agree that most analysis done in the West is shite. I just wish more journos actually reported what was happening and stayed out of wish casting and doom saying.
True, for me I've always felt that journalistic analysis isn't actual analysis because they never begin their piece with any actual facts to extrapolate from but much rather utilize subjective viewpoints and treat them as facts to "analyze" (for instance not stating the facts on climate change that the scientific community agree on, but instead doing a analysis on "public feeling" on "climate change" or the viability of small businesses to "survive" with new climate policies or some other trite wash).
For the journos that get whacked I feel that they start from the facts and their overall reporting then leads to a cocnrete conclusion of "oh hey the CIA is demonic", or "US imperialism is a net negative to the world at large".
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