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pmc

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4Runner said:
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Not looking good. Biden admin needs 100% attention on macro economic development in the US. There are no low-hanging geopolitical fruits to pick for resolving the current down turn. As the Clinton admin has re-enforced, "it is economy, stupid!"
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Unless Biden convince Americans to live like Europeans with same infrastructure/education/safety standards dont expect much.
otherwise Biden will need to stand up to Europeans on Paris climate accord /accelerated green agenda and it will need to stop energy exports. US also need to built real engineering products to lessen dependence on EU.
 
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pmc said:
Unless Biden convince Americans to live like Europeans with same infrastructure/education/safety standards dont expect much.
otherwise Biden will need to stand up to Europeans on Paris climate accord /accelerated green agenda and it will need to stop energy exports. US also need to built real engineering products to lessen dependence on EU.
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Chance of that happening is zero so all I can say is let’s witness the fire works go off, it’s bound to be magnificent from the amount of tears and salt that is going to come at the expect of these woke idiots
 
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supersnoop said:
He’s also wearing a pair of bright red Li Nings



That old man is a total jerk. Why you have to call the cops on this poor girl?
1. It’s her choice
2. She’s already down on her luck, so you decide to add jail?
3. Might’ve made some poor lonely sod’s day
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On the other hand, you never know what kind of STD she might I’ve had, with the world as crazy as it is and the fact that a lot of people in the USA are complete off their rocker, he made the right choice. Besides, would you accept her invitation out of the blue, as a married man, I would swiftly decline because not only will that hurt my love ones, but I would be liable to catch what ever cooties she might have had and that would break my ding ding and that would be horrible all around. Also to note is that Jail at least might’ve had food and a place to stay which should be an upgrade from a tent on the street. This is how screwed up the USA is right now, just one or two more disasters away from a real life division game scenario which I am curiosity as to whether they have managed to make rolling grenade drones, that I know we are quite frankly screwed
 
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This is how screwed up the USA is right now, just one or two more disasters away from a real life division game scenario which I am curiosity as to whether they have managed to make rolling grenade drones, that I know we are quite frankly screwed
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Seeker mines from the Division sounds cool, but I like turrets better because it can distract the opponents and deal damage overtime. A cheap RC car strapped with explosives would be a better alternative to the seeker mines in a real life post-apocalypse world.
 
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Oh lol all these rich Indians leaving India and colonizing Western countries. "Can't go to a Dunkin without speaking with a slight Indian accent" - Joe Brandon.
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They're in it for a treat, Once China Surpasses US GDP in nominal terms west would reluctantly come to term with the new reality but the white insecurity propped up until then will still be there and whom do you think will become the convenient punching bag?
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Don't think China would get the credits for bringing the global pollution lower but it is good that such great progress has been made over such short period of time on reducing air pollution in China.
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(Bloomberg) -- China has reduced air pollution nearly as much in seven years as the US did in three decades, helping to bring down average global smog levels in the process.

The amount of harmful particulates in the air in China fell 40% from 2013 to 2020, according to the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute, which would add about two years to average life expectancy if sustained. While smog in large swathes of the country still significantly exceeds safe levels, its experience shows how quickly progress can be made, researchers including Professor Michael Greenstone said in a report published Tuesday.

About 97% of the world’s population live in areas where air quality is usually worse than World Health Organization guidelines, according to the researchers. Smog reduces global life expectancy more than cigarette smoking, alcohol or poor sanitation, they said.

“China’s success in reducing pollution is a strong indication of the opportunities that could lie ahead for other nations if they were to impose strong pollution policies, as some are beginning to do,” they said.

Even in the US and Europe, which have been battling pollution for decades and account for just 4.1% of the global health burden from airborne particulates, more than 90% of people live in areas that don’t meet WHO guidelines, which were tightened last year.


China’s success, led by restrictions on car use and coal burning in major cities, has been rapid, with its 40% decline in seven years nearly equaling a 44% drop in US pollution over 30 years from 1970, after the landmark Clean Air Act was passed, the researchers said by email. Still, Beijing remains three times more polluted than Los Angeles, the smoggiest city in the US, and the national average for air particulates is six times higher than the WHO recommends.

Read: London Pollution Worse Than Beijing as Mayor Extends Alert

Without China’s declines, the world would have seen average pollution levels increase since 2013 instead of drop, the researchers said. That’s because of worsening air quality in the industrializing countries of South and Southeast Asia and Central Africa. Cambodia and Thailand both saw pollution rise by more than 10% in 2020 even as nearby Singapore and Indonesia saw levels fall. Meanwhile the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi are among the most polluted in the world.

Almost half the world’s increase in air pollution came from India in 2020, even after a strict nationwide lockdown was imposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March that year. Concentrations of toxic particles less than 2.5 micrometers in size -- or PM 2.5 -- rose 2.9%. In Pakistan, they advanced 6.3%, and in Bangladesh -- the most polluted nation on Earth with particulate levels 15 times higher than WHO guidelines -- the increase was 13%.

“Air pollution really is a stubborn problem that takes decades-long investments to really see true progress,” said Christa Hasenkopf, the study’s co-author and director of Air Quality Programs at the University of Chicago. “The health burden of air pollution on South Asia is just staggering.”
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Meanwhile, in Superpower India: Almost half the world’s increase in air pollution came from India in 2020, even after a strict nationwide lockdown was imposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March that year. Concentrations of toxic particles less than 2.5 micrometers in size -- or PM 2.5 -- rose 2.9%.
 
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