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Europe is doing the best to mitigate the pollution, but Europe produces only 8% of global pollution. China and India should do something, but instead they’re do
by giuliomagnifico 4y ago
Europe is doing the best to mitigate the pollution, but Europe produces only 8% of global pollution. China and India should do something, but instead they’re doing almost nothing.
- murderfs 4y ago"We did all of our polluting in the past and achieved our industrialization already, why doesn't everyone else just choose to stay poor?"
- adrianN 4y agoIndustrialization can be achieved with less pollution today than two hundred years ago. You're allowed to skip some steps and immediately start with clean technology.
- hedora 4y agoThey've outsourced the vast majority of their air pollution to India and China, but still somehow produce 8% of global pollution. One way to fix this is to change international trade agreements to place producers under the environmental (and human rights) jurisdictions of the places where their goods are ultimately sold. It would force a race to the top instead of the current race to the bottom.
- tsol 4y agoAnd where are Europe's cheap goods being made?