“If we want more growth, we need to allow creative destruction so new companies can deliver the productivity we need.”

Octopus energy ceo greg jackson

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    16 hours ago

    I see, yes my understanding is that the process can be a lot cleaner and other countries do it (like the US), China just chooses to take cheap shortcuts to take stranglehold of the market, which they now have.

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      10 hours ago

      Do you have any sources which elaborate on this?

      It at the same time sounds A) possible, and B) like the kind of thing that someone should support with evidence.

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          2 hours ago

          Oh, yeah, I’ve seen that video.

          … So I guess we don’t really have an answer for why people are saying that Chinese rare earth element mining is more environmentally destructive than everyone else’s rare earth element mining.

          Well, I mean, I’ve got a guess.