0 50jahre 1 Wind 2 Morgen 3 Sim 4 Und da 5 Komplexe 6 Lügen 7 Deppen 8 Rand 9 Links 10_Schwer 11_Gast Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia, first in English:
xyz is a German manufacturer of cement mixers and building machinery, and also a manufacturer of woodworking machinery. xyz products are designed in Germany and made in China.

Then the German version of this paragraph:
Die xyz GmbH mit Hauptsitz im schwäbischen abc im Landkreis def ist ein Produktions- und Handelsunternehmen für stationäre und halbstationäre Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen, Brennholzmaschinen, Gartengeräte, Werkstattmaschinen, Druckluftgeräte, Generatoren und Baumaschinen. Weltweit existieren vier Standorte.

Ah, that’s a remarkable change. Also remarkable is what’s written in the manual for an xyz product: Made in “P.R.C.”.

I don’t think that’s fair... towards China. Yes, exactly. The “People’s Republic of China” now manufactures such a vast number of products and holds a huge share of the global market, yet a traditional German company is ashamed to put “Made in China” on its products and to state this on the German Wikipedia as well. In my view, there is absolutely no point in calling for political regulations here. The problem is rather that a hypocritical moral stance prevails. Goods are produced cheaply and people don’t like to talk about where. The Chinese people I know are friendly and hard-working, and I’m glad that many Asian customs have found their way here too. The Chinese helped build the USA and are superior to us in many respects. Not least because they did not pursue this pathological individualism, but – admittedly exaggerated in the other direction – value the collective. Let’s be honest. Isn’t the now-outdated term ‘Middle Kingdom’ meaningful enough in terms of significance? And how many thousands of years has something like “culture” existed there, compared to our hemisphere? Not that I assume a long existence produces relevance. But at least it shows that the practices lived out there are of great duration! There is current counter-evidence for this on the other side of the Atlantic, as seen from our perspective.

Incidentally, I have absolutely no desire to ‘bashing’ individuals, not even the leading despots of our time, be it P, T, E, M or O. (Those not named may join the queue ^^) That is why I am not naming the company . Anyone who is interested and does a bit of digging will find out in no time anyway. This condescending ranting about this or that gets us nowhere. It’s about the bigger picture. If we don’t understand this soon, the climate crisis will be the least of our problems, except where things are really ‘heating up’.

What we need is a global ethic outside the realm of religion. As for the reader’s assumption that the probability of such a thing is tending towards zero, I don’t disagree, but I place it on the same level as the probability that we’ll manage to achieve any significant mitigation of climate change. “We’ll see when we get there,” as Franzl would say ^^.