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Depending on how you do accounting, employing an American with their carbon footprint is probably more environmentally damaging than employing someone from Viet
by vkou 3y ago
Depending on how you do accounting, employing an American with their carbon footprint is probably more environmentally damaging than employing someone from Vietnam and shipping the product across the Pacific...
- some_random 3y agoYeah you can manipulate the accounting to get whatever conclusion you want, this is true for pretty much everything complicated.
- schiffern 3y agoThat's not an example of "manipulating the accounting" though, it's just an unavoidable consequence of manufacturing in high cost-of-living and carbon-per-capita locations.
- some_random 3y agoDo you believe workers who aren't hired in a high carbon-per-capita location just die? Or do they just fade into nothingness as you stop thinking of them?