your comment reminds me of what a Kenyan official once put it: “Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time a western visits we get a lecture.”
No. I prefer “when” humans lived with nature instead of against it. I would prefer a time where countries aren’t battling against each other and instead working together, with empathy replacing greed and desire for power. I desire a time when “less for you” doesn’t mean “more for me”, but rather “more for you” is “more for everyone”. I am disillusioned with humanity, and that does not know the boundaries of countries, which are fairly pointless—which the comments are backing up by pointing out how bad both China and the US are. It’s more than just that, and putting it into US vs China terms is pointless. That’s not what the framework of the bigger issue looks like.
That’s why I put “when” in quotations. Instead of going back, I think it’s possible to improve things. I don’t expect them to be perfect, but we should be striving to learn from our mistakes and to make things better than they have been. That’s the point I’m trying to make. In my eyes, over-industrialization has led to some really big issues, as well as the death of our planet. So I don’t want humans to keep going in that direction, I’d like us to learn from our mistakes in an effort to make life as good as it can be for as many people as possible. Obviously, people have different ideas about what that looks like.
128
u/ExAzhur 4d ago
your comment reminds me of what a Kenyan official once put it: “Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time a western visits we get a lecture.”