This graph just shows the different outcomes from Monroe Doctrine vs. Marshall Plan and other stimulus.
Since the 50's, Europe and select Asian countries received large investments from the US; Latin America received coups supported by CIA and governments that sold out to foreign interests.
The Marshall Plan was a very small amount of money. It was about $150 billion in today’s money, or about 5% of GDP of the recipient nations. The U.S. and its allies spent far more in Iraq for far fewer people. And the U.S. has nothing like that for Singapore, Korea, or Taiwan.
And Monroe Doctrine was primarily in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That doesn’t explain why Latin America got relatively rich during that period, and then fell behind once most of the intervention stopped.
Also, what counts as “support” is extremely nebulous. Which countries in Latin America had a coup where the U.S. was the but-for cause?
I believe this all stems from primordial SQL focusing on storage efficiency, and now it’s kinda hard to retrofit better data modeling ideas without better affordances.
If I started from scratch, I would get rid of UPDATE and DELETE (these would be only very special cases for data privacy), and instead focus on first class views (either batch copy or streaming) and retention policies.
Planting trees solves both the carbon capture and the emissions issue from different angles. Some examples are:
- With more wood available it’s more economical to use it as a building/manufacturing material over other emissive sources (concrete, steel, plastic)
- We can replant the same area multiple times
- Even if we plant crops for biofuels, it’s closer to carbon neutral than burning fossil anyway
Every move we can make towards planting (and managing) more of the surface of the Earth is an improvement, without waiting for miraculous new technology.
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