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my take is that western and developed nations are just exporting all their problems to developing/manufacturing countries. it's not like europeans don't consume
by throwaway20004 4y ago
my take is that western and developed nations are just exporting all their problems to developing/manufacturing countries. it's not like europeans don't consume products that cause pollution, they just export the processes that create that pollution to other countries. if anything, europeans/americans are responsible for the majority of the pollution in china/india as a vast percentage of the goods produced end up being consumed in the western/developed nations anyway.
i think europeans should feel guilty when they see the disparity in pollution- norwegian streams and beaches may be clean but they can only do that because they import their goods from factories in other countries and send their oil to be burned elsewhere.
- spaetzleesser 4y agoWestern nations are generally very good hiding their dirty business out of sight. Exporting pollution to other countries is one thing. You see the same with animal farming. In China you see the bad treatment of animals in the open on markets where in the west we hide the same cruelty in locked down farms that most people never see. When we tell poorer countries to preserve wildlife we do this while we have eradicated all inconvenient wildlife in our own area.