Thursday, October 15, 2020

Marxist central planning or protection of the environment.

You can't have both.

The Aral Sea.

Norilsk.

And now "Lake" Baotou.

The environment has historically fared badly in socialist republics.

China continues that pattern. And despite the fact the regime in Beijing is willing to turn "our common home" into a public toilet, normally-voluble voices on that topic will remain conspicuously silent.



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