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.

Here is 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 noteworthy is what’s written in the manual for an xyz product: Made in “P.R.C.”.

I don’t think that’s fair... toward China. Exactly. The “People’s Republic of China” now manufactures so many products and holds a massive share of the global market, yet a traditional German company is ashamed to put “Made in China” on its products and to list that on the German Wikipedia as well. In my opinion, there’s absolutely no point in demanding political regulations here. The problem is rather that a hypocritical moral code prevails. Products are manufactured cheaply, and people don’t like to talk about where. The Chinese people I know are friendly and hardworking, and I’m glad that many Asian customs have found their way here as well. The Chinese helped build the U.S. and are superior to us in many respects. Not least because they didn’t pursue this pathological individualism, but—admittedly, in an exaggerated way in the opposite 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 Isn’t the now-outdated term “Middle Kingdom” meaningful enough in terms of significance?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 there are of great duration! There is current counterevidence for this on the other side of the Atlantic, as seen from our perspective.

By the way, I have absolutely no interest in “bashing” individuals, not even the leading despots of our time, be it P, T, E, M, or O. (Those not named may join the line ^^) That’s why I’m not naming the company . Anyone who’s interested and does a little digging will find out in no time anyway. This condescending ranting about this or that person doesn’t get us anywhere. It’s about the big picture. If we don’t understand that soon, the climate crisis will be our least of our problems, except where things are really “heating up.”

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