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I can't believe I'm praising them but credit where it's due I guess. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 20 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

Here is the Ginni link, it isn't updated often but China isn't exactly topping the list

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gini-coefficient-by-country

There are a lot of things China does badly but not the ones you mentioned.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    There are a lot of things China does badly but not the ones you mentioned.

    Okay, but the stat you linked confirms China's per capita emissions are pretty bad, more than double France's for example.

    As for income inequality, I was looking at the World Bank data listed here. There might be a discrepancy due to difficulty in obtaining reliable data for China.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 child)

    It feels a bit like cherry picking. Europe is much closer to China than the bigger polluters like NA and Australia. And a lot of China's pollution is because of rampant consumerism in NA and Europe amongst others.

    The wealth inequality is lower than two European states and very close to others below it. China is 78 on your list, Lithuania 79 and Italy is 91.

    I feel like your comment didn't give the full picture. China isn't exactly the worst on those fronts, especially when you take into account the manufacturing they do for foreign markets (offsetting Europe's and NAs own emmissions), while they are also one of the few actually making an effort to go green. State repression and the rest tho, ouf. And it's true that the numbers can't necessarily be trusted.

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  • [–] -4 points 6 days ago

    Not "the worst," but also not anywhere close to the least worst, which are obviously European social-democracies, and even their efforts for the renewable transition and tackling income inequality are not that impressive. But I suppose capitalist European countries are less suitable of a subject for tankie memes.

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