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I'm not suggesting that we send ourselves back to the stone age. I'm suggesting that we stop shipping resources half way around the planet and then send the tra
by iasay 4y ago
I'm not suggesting that we send ourselves back to the stone age. I'm suggesting that we stop shipping resources half way around the planet and then send the trash back because it's cheaper. The last 50-80 years at least has been a race to the lowest cost with no consideration for any consequences such as the environment, security and stability.
UK is a fine example. We had a great steel industry here. But it's cheaper to buy it from China and India and it helps us hit our pollution targets not processing it here. But we just pushed the problem to where the side effects aren't immediately visible. The real issue is our consumption and use of materials.
This is the reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy63PEgmm8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy63PEgmm8w
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- b112 4y agoOr how about in BC, where sawdust is shipped by the gigatonne to China, gets made into particle board, and comes back as cheap furniture?
- lamontcg 4y agoIf you had non polluting shipping and the costs were still cheap enough there would be nothing intrinsically wrong with this. The problem is the market externalities of the pollution of our current shipping methods, and likely the imbalances in the labor markets and regulation. If you fixed those, then it would probably no longer make sense to do that, but you can't fix those systemic problems by banning the symptoms of them.