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I think your point is important to understand, but I think it's kind of missing the point of measuring emissions by country. Exporting manufacturing, etc certai
by darawk 6y ago
I think your point is important to understand, but I think it's kind of missing the point of measuring emissions by country. Exporting manufacturing, etc certainly does not solve the problem. But that's in part because no one country can solve the problem. Any one country that regulates carbon emissions will simply export their emitting industries to foreign countries that do not. What that means is that we have to keep playing whack a mole, until everyone is in compliance. That is, unfortunately, probably just the nature of the problem. We could try to do complex things like apply tariffs to imported goods based on their carbon footprint, but reliably measuring that is going to be next to impossible.
So I don't want to disagree with you per se, I think it's important to recognize that exporting industries is not, per se, solving climate change. But I thin it's also important to recognize that solving climate change, in the early stages, probably does look a lot like just reshuffling things by country.