Nowhere did I say we exported all of our manufacturing. China produces half of the world’s steel, for example. Most used internally. https://en.m.wikipedia.o

Nowhere did I say we exported all of our manufacturing. China produces half of the world’s steel, for example. Most used internally. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_steel_production https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_steel_p... Largest cement producer in the world by far: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267364/world-cement-production-by-country/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/267364/world-cement-prod... All that industrialization…got China to 27% of total emissions. When the US released oil from its reserves it has to be sent overseas because of the lack of domestic refineries https://www.corporateknights.com/energy/is-the-sun-setting-on-americas-oil-refineries/ https://www.corporateknights.com/energy/is-the-sun-setting-o... Anyway, yes, part of the reason the US has dropped is because we have closed coal power plants in favor of natural gas, for example. But that’s another discussion