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> ship it over the pacific" was enabled by the lack of a proper carbon tax. This is just demonstrably false. For a typical household product, more carbon is em
by WJW 5y ago
> ship it over the pacific" was enabled by the lack of a proper carbon tax.
This is just demonstrably false. For a typical household product, more carbon is emitted trucking it from the port to the store than is emitted shipping it across the ocean. Cargo ships are extremely energy efficient. And of course for a great many products the raw materials are not actually produced locally, so if you shift manufacturing back home you now have to ship the raw materials instead.
A "proper carbon tax" would increase oversea production since economies of scale are real and huge.
- specialp 5y agoIt depends where the port is, and where the store is. While it is true that a cargo ship produces 20% of the carbon per km per ton that a truck does, the distance is very large. This also does not account for freight rail which produces half the carbon per km per ton that container ships do. So yes, if a cargo ship goes the 11,000 km from China to LA, then a semi-truck takes this from LA to NY the overland route would produce more carbon. Also, the part about the raw materials not being produced locally, this is true abroad too.