This Can’t Go On

Re:This Can’t Go On by ttiurani on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @02:49AM (#28058003)

This apparent decoupling in western nations is an illusion made possible by globalization, where resources are extracted from the global South. When you count in production, no more decoupling can be found.

Find the sources for these from for example:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2019.15...

Edit. Here specifically on decoupling:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S14629...

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Re:This Can’t Go On by tarsinge on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:27AM (#28059729)

This is a very important aspect, we really must stop looking at country specific environmental impact (and some other metrics) without its attached outsourced production.

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Re:This Can’t Go On by amiga on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:14AM (#28070790)

This would mean we're responsible for emissions in China - I'd imagine that's not a popular opinion

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Re:This Can’t Go On by reallydontask on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:42AM (#28071568)

Popular or not, there is a lot of merit to that view. After all a lot of the emissions are driven by manufacturing of goods for export to the West, thus it makes sense for us to take some responsability for them

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