This is an actual EU regulation with some very good parts in it. This surely wont solve everything, but it creates precedent and can be given more teeth to bit with in the future.
I cant wait for some conservative idiot to spin this in the worst possible way. Mixed in with some lies, whataubout-isms and straw-mans for a delicious disinformation-coktail!
In China, real-estate and owning a home is a big show or success in life and therefore highly desirable.
Over the years the construction sector ran rampant, building homes faster then they could be sold by banks to bidders. A lot of these homes are so shoddy, they are starting to fall appart while people are living inaide them (google "tofu-buildings" and see for yourself, its horrific).
With high ammounts of corruption and in-party dealings, China continued to overbuild, using up massive ammounts of concrete on buildings with the lifespan of an average laptop. If they would build highly efficient buildings to house the massive population with high quality and affordable rooms, that would probably justity the high us of concrete and material.
But they are not...
And here we are now, locked in a perpetual cycle of building and breaking stuff, because a lot of finances and political positions are entwined with constructionnand lland-dealings.
The CCP could intervene, they are the fake-communist authoritarian rulers after all and their word is law. Im just not sure they want to. Or know how.
Luxury perfumes linked to child labour, BBC finds ( www.bbc.com )
Children have picked ingredients used by suppliers to two major beauty companies, the BBC can reveal....
What's up with all the ads here?
So, uhm, what the hell is going on with all these ad posts I’m seeing in this community?
The US is thinking about letting Ukraine use its weapons to strike Russia, even if it enrages Putin: report ( www.businessinsider.com )
US officials are considering letting Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons, The New York Times reports....
World Bank’s climate plan: Pricier red meat and dairy, cheaper chicken and veggies ( www.politico.eu )
“We have to stop destroying the planet as we feed ourselves,” a World Bank official said, as red meat and dairy drive CO2 emissions....
The environmental cost of China's addiction to cement ( www.bbc.com )
The use of concrete exploded to fuel China's rise. Now the costs of this weighty material are being counted....
Telling other people Im autistic be like ( lemmy.world )