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Not true. People have done the math and our emissions do not change that much if you do it by end product consumption vs production. https://ourworldindata.org
by xadhominemx 5y ago
Not true. People have done the math and our emissions do not change that much if you do it by end product consumption vs production.
https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
- version_five 5y agoInteresting thanks. I'm curious what the intuition is for why. My apparently wrong intuition is that if we're importing all our goods, we're incurring the emissions associated with their production + transportation in other places.
- xadhominemx 5y agoA lot of emissions are from transport, electricity production, cement production, and heating; none of those are offshore And in terms of manufacturing, while a lot of the labor intensive (but more emissions light) manufacturing jobs have gone overseas due to lower wages, most heavy industry (chemicals, etc) has remained onshore because those products are bulky