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Yep. And given all those 'Made in China' labels, it's a big exporter too, transferring more CO2 to consumers. The picture does not become better looking for (us
by ragebol 4y ago
Yep. And given all those 'Made in China' labels, it's a big exporter too, transferring more CO2 to consumers. The picture does not become better looking for (us) Westerners
- epistasis 4y agoThis is not very true if you look at the numbers. Manufacturing stuff is a pretty tiny proportion of emissions, and even if you shift all of China's manufacturing emissions back to the countries that import, it's barer a blip. I ran the numbers a few years ago to see what personal actions I could take. (Even though climate change is a collective action problem, not a personal action problem.) In the US, stopping buying so much stuff isn't much of a climate action, at least not nearly as much as switching off driving a gas car, changing your natural gas water heater to electric, ir changing a natural gas furnace to a heat pump.