Bill Gates: You’ll never solve climate change by asking people to consume less

Re:Bill Gates: You’ll never solve climate change by asking p... by klhutchins on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:05PM (#33030401)

Localize manufacturing? With those huge cargo ships producing lots of CO2, wouldn't the best impact be to reduce the use of those ships? Try not to ship parts to get assembled into another part, to get shipped again and again back to the origin, and then final assembly and packaging and shipped to the store?

I know it's naive to think we can build manufacturing plants at the source of raw materials, and near consumers, but there should be a better balance?

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Re:Bill Gates: You’ll never solve climate change by asking p... by shadowfox on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:56PM (#33030725)

> to think we can build manufacturing plants at the source of raw materials, and near consumers

The source of raw materials and consumers may be quite far apart (certainly in the modern world). While it can be argued that maybe they shouldn't be, that is likely to require a significant change in consumer (human?) behavior. And then there is the question of how local is "local" - are you advocating for each city/state to be self-sufficient in terms of agriculture and manufacturing or are you considering a whole massive country like the US as "local".

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