Oh, yeah, I’ve seen that video.

… So I guess we don’t really have an answer for why people are saying that Chinese rare earth element mining is more environmentally destructive than everyone else’s rare earth element mining.

Well, I mean, I’ve got a guess.

Do you have any sources which elaborate on this?

It at the same time sounds A) possible, and B) like the kind of thing that someone should support with evidence.

If your neighbor is putting up two solar panels, and you’re just putting up one, someone might say that your neighbor is doing more than you to electrify.

If your response is, “But they’re bragging about it! It’s propaganda! They’re a bad person!” then it kind of sounds like you’re just salty about the electrification thing.

This article implies that industries such as this are what would need to be creatively destroyed to enable progress in electrification.

“Incumbents crowd out the innovators in many sectors and markets… so many of the big industries essentially have a stranglehold on policy”

Ah Cannae put ma weigh’ on tha roof, Ah cannae put me weigh’ on that gutter; Where’s it meant ta go???

You’re leading with two questions, here… and it kind of looks like an attempt to frame this as though I’m the one making assumptions. But I want to backtrack to how we got here, real quick:

Someone: Airbnb makes sense for a lot of people under one roof, like for a family reunion.

You: It’s cheaper to rent an event space.

Yeah, sure, your commentary about sharing hotel rooms and amenities and group packages and blah blah might be relevant, but that’s not what you said. You just said to get an event space. That doesn’t have any information in it about where people are actually supposed to stay and sleep, which is what an Airbnb is for.

The comparison of Airbnb to Event Space doesn’t make sense without all of that other stuff, at which point it all very much depends on all of these other factors like headcounts and group rates, so unless you’re making a bunch of extra assumptions, you don’t actually know which solution is cheaper.

And, the plan for sleeping…?

Reunions often involve travel.