Re:Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead...
by chiefalchemist on Monday July 05, 2021 @10:49AM
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> "On the other hand you can't produce all of your products in China and try to shame when they have higher co2 levels."
This is an important point that more people need to understand. That is, when a country outsources their manufacturing the associated pollution production goes with it.
China et al don't only have cheap labor, their environmental protections are also less stringent. So when, for example, the USA claims it has reduced X or Y it has often simply moved that off shore.
Put another way, that smog in Beijine - that so many in the West are fond of chastising - was Made For America, and others.
This is an important point that more people need to understand. That is, when a country outsources their manufacturing the associated pollution production goes with it.
China et al don't only have cheap labor, their environmental protections are also less stringent. So when, for example, the USA claims it has reduced X or Y it has often simply moved that off shore.
Put another way, that smog in Beijine - that so many in the West are fond of chastising - was Made For America, and others.