this seems like an ... imaginative thesis. https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/status/1359987183298482192
specifically, it seems like massively back-projecting the politics of today into an entire alien geopolitical and ideological climate. While Qing 'environmentalism' is a fascinating topic, it was deeply wrapped in with, among other things, Manchu suppression of Han ambition.
it's ok chinese farmers! it's better than you stay subsistence-level peasants in an economy *so desperate that you are worse off than in the 9th century* than that you get to use coal!
kaifeng was burning coal in the 11th century to smelt iron, incidentally, a massively important innovation, but no, everything centers around white people
the biggest proponents of Chinese industrialization would, of course, turn out to be the Maoist government under Soviet influence - but it's 'Anglo-American coal capitalism' that's to blame
when you're doing Anglo-American coal capitalism
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