Then one answer is to impose tariffs on end services and products, on nations that don’t meet the same environmental concerns.

The tariffs should match the cost of said overhead.

Couldn't agree more. that would be a consistent position to hold as it wouldn't cause a net harm by driving manufacturing to places with terrible environmental records. It wouldn't be as good as sponsoring research and capital investment to create cleaner manufacturing processes, which would actually improve the situation.

The combination of rigid environmental/labor practices in the developed world with an equally fanatical devotion to unfettered cross-border capitol flows and 'trade' is systematically immiserating the West and leading to massive net environmental damage even though both of these goals: cosmopolitanism and environmentalism, are individually the darlings of western elites.

Yes.

It’s caused numerous cultural and environmental problems.

Look at the sad state of the US today.

We didn’t even have the production capability to make n-95 masks.

Meanwhile, company spokesmen tell us that if we want change we should push our legislators; while having wholesale monopolies on lobbyists who do everything they can to ensure offshoring is extremely profitable.

Which grows the warchest of those screwing us over that much more.