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>25 big cities account for more than half of the climate-warming gases. 23 of them are in China - Reuters
>Time to boycott all Chinese products
>https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/handful-cities-driving-urban-greenhouse-gas-emissions-study-2021-07-12/
To defend China minimally, this was caused by westerners being NIMBYists. They pushed industry out of european and american countries so we could feel great about how we're not polluting, but then we buy the stuff made in China made in the polluting factories anyway.
>25 big cities account for more than half of the climate-warming gases. 23 of them are in China - Reuters
>Time to boycott all Chinese products
>https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/handful-cities-driving-urban-greenhouse-gas-emissions-study-2021-07-12/
To defend China minimally, this was caused by westerners being NIMBYists. They pushed industry out of european and american countries so we could feel great about how we're not polluting, but then we buy the stuff made in China made in the polluting factories anyway.
@InceptionState @zerohedge I'm generally against carbon taxes because I don't think it's ethical to increase heating and transportation costs in a way that will disproportionately affect the poor.
That being said, if it's a necessary evil, then I'd support a tariff on countries based on noncompliance from the norms of first world nations so that we're competing on a level playing field.
China is just one example, but not the only one. Candy companies claim in court that they cannot possibly make chocolate without slave labor -- Well if that's the case then maybe we need to stick a 120000% tariff on the chocolate from countries that tacitly allow slavery? Competitive advantage is one thing, but where western companies rely on competitive advantage that comes from something that shocks the conscience to the point that it's been outlawed for hundreds of years, but potential first world growers are competing with literal slavery.
That being said, if it's a necessary evil, then I'd support a tariff on countries based on noncompliance from the norms of first world nations so that we're competing on a level playing field.
China is just one example, but not the only one. Candy companies claim in court that they cannot possibly make chocolate without slave labor -- Well if that's the case then maybe we need to stick a 120000% tariff on the chocolate from countries that tacitly allow slavery? Competitive advantage is one thing, but where western companies rely on competitive advantage that comes from something that shocks the conscience to the point that it's been outlawed for hundreds of years, but potential first world growers are competing with literal slavery.
@Jackuu @InceptionState @zerohedge I completely agree, which is why I'm fundamentally against the idea.
I've got an essay on here specifically about the environmental industrial complex that specifically exists not to help the environment but to package up the idea of environmentalism and take resources from things that might actually help.
I've got an essay on here specifically about the environmental industrial complex that specifically exists not to help the environment but to package up the idea of environmentalism and take resources from things that might actually help.