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> Western countries are not the major culprit at the moment... I believe this is a misconception. We didn't decrease our emissions, we outsourced them. A lot o
by perfunctory 7y ago
> Western countries are not the major culprit at the moment...
I believe this is a misconception. We didn't decrease our emissions, we outsourced them. A lot of the China pollution is due to exports for western consumption. Just look at the trade "disbalance" between China and USA.
- newnewpdro 7y agoI don't think you can account anywhere near 100% of China's increased emissions by what the USA "outsourced" in shifting its manufacturing there. China is developing into a first-world nation with over a billion people. That's a lot of manufacturing and infrastructure development for purely domestic purposes. Building cities, streets, highways, railways, automobiles, that's a huge amount of metal and cement production. If you want to blame the USA and other China-product-consuming countries for China's emissions, it's more for sending so much money in their direction on goods to fund all this large-scale development.
- perfunctory 7y agoNobody is saying it's 100%