Like it or not the West has been exporting these problems to China for decades and China gladly accepted that in return for dollars. We are offshoring our pollution at a scale that nobody likes to talk about. Hence why it's so important when we talk about environmental sustainability that we include the global cost of pollution into products. That way it might be interesting to onshore rare elements mining or vice versa China gets forced to work more sustainable. It's a win-win eitherway, though what we do now both the West and China is literally raping our planet.

My point of argument is that the article makes it appear as if it's some new company that starts building busses. This is just a assembly line for putting BYD buses together.

I'm a bit confused with what's really going on as the founder seems to be Indian, but this isn't some company that designed it's own platform, started buying various parts and possibly even design some, and put a bus together. This is just a bus-kit being put together. They could just have bought and imported them straight to Kenya, lots of countries are doing that.

These are literally BYD bus kits assembled in Kenya. The funding for the plant is Chinese, the owners are seemingly Chinese. This smells a lot like a B&R initiative.

To me what's baffling how few questions people have (and on the same term how little the CS from banks know). I have a whole bunch of mortgages and I read each and everyone of them. For many people these are defining moments in their life yet few seem to even take notice of what they are about to sign. I have always questions, banks often don't mind tailoring small adjustments accordingly. These agreements strangely enough also don't seem to be standardized, I get sometimes from the same bank a couple mortgages in a single year and the agreements vary occasionally. On top as said, the banks customer service seldom seem to be well versed in what's going on.

Pesticides / fertilizer already happens precision based. My family are large scale farmers (in Europe) and the machines already adjust real time the need for pesticides as well fertilizer based upon visual and historical data. I never asked about water but I would be surprised that this isn't a thing.

Could someone help me understand how these yields in China are achieved? They have been already significantly above the "world average", but on top they seem to really jump in the 60/70's which is right after the disastrous Great Famine. It also seems rather odd when you know how Chinese farming goes, that isn't large industrialized farming but small scale farming as everyone has a single mu of ground what they exploit.

Construction is notoriously traditional. Any new tech is a massive risk especially when it comes to the superstructure which often has up to 50 years guarantee period. So if anything goes wrong, whoever used that printer will go bankrupt.

But there is far more wrong with 3d printers how it's often commercially used. To begin it really contributes nothing, you get an inner wall that's not smooth so you need to spend a lot more on making it acceptable. And in the end all you got is an inner wall, you got no insulation, you got no plumbing you got no exterior wall, you got just a shell. And there are already alternatives for it. These days speed is everything and factory assembled housing becomes more common for repeated housing projects. They erect a whole street in a week. Working off site is the future not a wobbly 3d printed wall.

Now that being said, it doesn't mean 3d printing has no place in construction but in very specific projects. I've seen for example some complex spans as well bridge elements being printed.

But anyone promoting 3d printing as mentioned in the article fails to understand construction (which is baffling because even professors from TU Delft are big on this).

That's great news considering how seafood takes up 40% of their total protein consumption. To make matters "worse", they are still consuming barely half of what Americans consume protein wise so they still have a long way to catch up which they want with an increased personal wealth.