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EV Popularity in China Accounts for 262,000 Fewer Deaths from Air Pollution
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Are we sure they aren't just weening off the genocide in Xinjiang and need an excuse for the change in demographic trends?
The air quality can be independently verified pretty easily, and we know that lower pollution reduces deaths.... so while your comment is trying to get a different point, it's not particularly good at doing so.
If my comment upsets you then it was intended to: fuck China. If they want this research to have legitimacy they should put the researchers' or institution's name in the headline instead of China.
You can fuck China and also be happy that they have reduced air pollution
Yes I absolutely can, and curiously here I am saying Fuck China and some demographic on the fediverse is REALLY upset about that.
As someone who also doesn't like China: your original comment was off topic. That's why you're getting downvoted
I just stumbled upon this, but to me it looks like you're the one who's upset...?
For real, there is a time to get angry, and it is when an evil dictatorship spends billions to deal direct immediate harm to you.
I get what you're saying.
People on the fediverse tend to be upset about moronic comments that make no sense.
It's literally coming from Goodnewsnetwork.org
It's not like this is the BBC here.
Seeing as China takes ethnic and genetic registration pretty seriously, no?
Wow, any particular reason you have such a raging hate honer?
Not to mention, the Xinjiang part of this argument doesn't really make sense either. The Xinjiang stuff does not involve direct death (besides conditions being as horrible as prison) so that it is far worse than death: it kills the culture, is suspected of forcing organ donations, and institutes sterilization. Unfortunately for the Uyghurs, death is not involved here.
Oh it involves some amount of dorect death but actually the discussion is about birth rates.
As a whole it is not a serious comment claiming China is fudging nunbers, just sharing a reminder in case anybody almost saw China in a positive light for a moment.
it’s hard to tell whether you’re serious over text. next time, you could use tone indicators or an explanation to clarify a meaning!
Implying they would ever wean off of genocide?
Well they can't eradicate the same race of people forever.
I can no longer tell whether you're pro- or anti-China.
Look.
When you kill people, they die. Are you gonna kill them again? Because if China id doing that then they're more evil than I thought.
What I'm hearing you say is China's not that evil and if they were committing genocide they would only do that for a short while.
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