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by rocknor 1981 days ago
I think you should focus on the huge amount of garbage and carbon emissions produced everyday in the USA (biggest contributor to climate change), which is objectively a much bigger problem than this one-off event which media portrayed as some sort of catastrophe. It's "glass houses" all over again. Why should a nation of 350M people have ASAT capability in the interest of national security, but not a nation of 1.4B people? We're seeing what happens when power is concentrated in the hands of a few (Trump/Parler bans) and it cannot be allowed to happen at a geopolitical level, in the interest of world peace (it sounds crazy but it has worked post WW2).
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It's possible to care about more than one thing at a time. It's also possible to take a broader look at a problem such as arms control and say that in the long term the proliferation of capabilities is detrimental to humanity as a whole and ask how we can make progress in the other direction. Sadly with nationalism still trending upwards in much of the world I recognise this is a difficult propsition at the moment.
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