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I imagine, being in China, the pollution is also an externality of the manufacturing for the entire world that Europe/US is happy to occur in China instead of l
by deanCommie 8y ago
I imagine, being in China, the pollution is also an externality of the manufacturing for the entire world that Europe/US is happy to occur in China instead of locally.
- coldtea 8y agoYeah, western countries can outsource all manufacturing there, lower their businesses costs, and then play holier than thou on green matters too...
- pas 8y agoSeverly poor communities without any wastewater treatment letting effluent into the river they live next to is the problem. It is the prime recipe for Cholera. So EU/US usually makes cleaner wastewater, but uses a lot more energy (so pollutes by CO2). Manufacturing's externalities outsourcing is of course something that should be handled by import tariffs and supply chain verification.
- alistairSH 8y agoSure, but I was asking specifically about the plastic waste and other trash, which was the original topic. Not general pollutants.