I just read your article and thank you for sharing. I believe we will have much to talk about should we ever meet, particularly with your family’s evolution over the past 50 years. If I ever have time to watch the linked videos in your article I’ll come back to them.

One thing to get out of the way is my comments were not implying China is “evil” or “bad”. It’s a country, a government, a national identity, many other things, and that they use a lot of electricity, good on China. Painting an entire group of people as ‘evil’ is a pretty big paintbrush, and begs for trouble.

As for bias and sourcing data, my comment still stands: unless you source the actual data yourself, you rely on intermediary interpretation and bias, forcing you to trust or stay silent. Even meter reading requires testing meters or trusting that they read accurately.

“I know that I know nothing,” but to acknowledge this and still remain silent for all one’s life is the bigger loss for humankind.