Trump was right, Merkel was wrong.

[ajohn]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has a 54% market share

They got going by making simpler semiconductors that quickly gained most of the market share and the USA stopped producing them as no money in it. Then over time increased the range and complexity. Japan probably puts out a fair number as well. Technology wise I wouldn't be surprised if they matched the USA.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Heartening news; lefties admit Trump was right. Now let's get those election results overturned.

 

[noseall]

Rewilding our countryside when we can't feed ourselves

You think wild weather and catastrophic floods are cheap?

 

[ReganAndCarter]

You think wild weather and catastrophic floods are cheap?

The earth has experienced climate change and extreme weather since day one.

 

[JohnD]

The earth has experienced climate change and extreme weather since day one.

and they have caused extinctions, crop failures, starvation and floods

your point is?

And none of them have been as sudden and abrupt as climate change caused by human industrialisation.

 

[gas112]

and they have caused extinctions, crop failures, starvation and floods

your point is?

And none of them have been as sudden and abrupt as climate change caused by human industrialisation.

Really,
the dinosaurs and the several other mass extinction events would prove you wrong there

 

[JohnD]

your point is?

 

[gas112]

your point is?

that yet again your wrong that nothing has affected the weather as sudden and abrupt as humans

 

[ajohn]

why don’t we give subsidies to build greenhouses to increase our food production or indeed other farming.

Poly-tunnels are being used more and more. Don't think they will help with oranges and bananas but we could go back to pomegranates for extra vitamins.

 

[Vinty]

the scary thing is that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has a 54% market share

imagine how the world would be cream crackered is China took Taiwan

the West has become too dependent on global supply chains -its a major security risk, as we are discovering with Russian gas

Well, why don't you thank the Russians for the end of globalism.

 

[Vinty]

they have caused extinctions, crop failures, starvation and floods

These disasters have occurred since time immemorial.

 

[Vinty]

and they have caused extinctions, crop failures, starvation and floods

your point is?

And none of them have been as sudden and abrupt as climate change caused by human industrialisation.

That isn't really true, is it.

 

[Vinty]

the West has become too dependent on global supply chains -its a major security risk, as we are discovering with Russian gas

What you are realising is the wests place in the real world.

 

[Vinty]

the scary thing

The scary thing is, Notch is that decent people like you are scared.

 

[ajohn]

What you are realising is the wests place in the real world.

Few grasp that really even to some extent in the USA. As has been mentioned due to exports Russia is rather fundamental in a number of areas.

All to allow us to buy the more recent bells and whistles that the majority of people own these days. Post war economics have mostly gone. Trade deficits don't matter any more. Some fair better than others in that respect. Countries debt levels in many many places just keep increasing and so it goes on and on.