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No...the manufacturing is occurring in China, it's literally coming out of chinese facilities that are controlled by the Chinese state and industry management. One could just as easily say it's China's responsibility to turn down manufacturing contracts based on their inability to take those contracts without delivering huge amounts of CO2.
It's entirely unrealistic to think the US can or should fix China's grid and industrial processes. It's literally a non-starter and is essentially just saying China is "owed" the right to pollute because other countries did in the past.
And even if you actually believed what you're claiming, what is the solution here? The US scales back manufacturing and craters the world economy (including for China's)? Or are they suppose to pay their own GDP out to China so the Chinese government doesn't have to scale back their imperial ambitions and focus on solving domestic issues that are destroying the planet? Where do you realistically think China is going to put that hypothetical payday if they're already unwilling to scale back their own wasteful, ancillary domestic programs?
You're trying to pretend China isn't the second largest economy in the world, it's just not convincing. It's way more efficient for countries that can afford to fix their own emissions, like China and the US, to do so and then help poor, developing countries that actually need financial and material support meet their climate goals.
Pretending the US can fund the entire world's transition is, frankly, idiotic because your same backwards-looking logical gymnastics can be applied to almost every country that is smaller than the US. It's an unserious solution.
All I’m saying is that climate scientists confirm that US manufacturing demands are creating a large portion of the CO2 from China, so the US should stop using them as a scapegoat, and accept responsibility as the world’s largest contributor to climate change.
It doesn’t need a wall of text to combat.
There is no "scapegoat", it's politically and financially impossible for the US to "take responsibility" for China's grid emissions, even tankie's should be able to understand that hard reality.
It's the Chinese energy production that's driving climate change, what they are choosing to do with that energy is irrelevant, whether it's manufacturing for other countries or running a billion surveillance cameras, it's their unsustainable grid that creates the emissions. The US cannot force China upgrade their power grid.
We could produce domestically and responsibly, outsource to a climate responsible nation, or reduce consumption of offending products. It’s on us, and pointing the finger at China for making our Walmart plastic junk doesn’t address anything. It further obfuscates the problem and justifies our current emissions as “2nd largest” contributor when we in fact lead the world in emissions.
Yup, you're almost there, now what does that make China then? What makes producing Walmart plastic junk more acceptable in a climate responsible nation?
What puts the actual CO2 into the atmosphere? The product itself or the process and grid powering the creation of that product?