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Re:Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” ... by nostromo on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @06:23PM (#33087925)
Germany and the US also export a tremendous amount of goods, and do so without clogging up our rivers (and eventually the ocean) with trash.

And studies have shown that only 15% of China's CO2 emissions are for the production of exports. That means that 85% of their CO2 emissions are for local production. [1]

Lastly, the amount of economic value the US and other advanced nations produce per unit of Co2 is much higher than China, which is one of the least efficient from Co2 to value. [2]

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15883-9

2. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PP.GD?most_...

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Re:Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” ... by miguelazo on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @06:26PM (#33087958)
That's mostly due to the TYPES of exports involved.
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Re:Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” ... by ch4s3 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @06:52PM (#33088231)
The US exports cars, steel, cotton, natural gas, coal, plastics, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and on and on.

On the note of pharmaceuticals and India, there’s a stark difference. Indian manufacturers dumb literal tons on antibiotics and their byproducts into rivers, and no US pharma company does this at all.

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