The National Observer article from 2020 makes a good point. Worth noting that imports from China hace doubled since 2019. Up to approximately $89 Billion in goods we import from that country.
It's so great to point fingers at China's emissions as we stock store shelves across our nation with their goods and profit off the markup while at the same time profiting from the goods we export to them to burn or process. In Canada & US when I go into a dollar store or best buy or giant tiger or Canadian Tire or wallmart the shelves are full of things made in China.
The pollution required to make a lot of what we buy actually shows up on other countries emissions, not ours. China exports far more stuff to Canada than we export to them. Our top exports to China are <checks notes> Coal and petroleum. Nice. So that helps make some Canadians wealthier, then they burn our coal and gas (likey to manufacture just a small percentage of the stuff that ends up back on our store shelves) and all that goes on their emission data, not ours. Sneaky, eh?
The National Observer article from 2020 makes a good point. Worth noting that imports from China hace doubled since 2019. Up to approximately $89 Billion in goods we import from that country.
It's so great to point fingers at China's emissions as we stock store shelves across our nation with their goods and profit off the markup while at the same time profiting from the goods we export to them to burn or process. In Canada & US when I go into a dollar store or best buy or giant tiger or Canadian Tire or wallmart the shelves are full of things made in China.
The pollution required to make a lot of what we buy actually shows up on other countries emissions, not ours. China exports far more stuff to Canada than we export to them. Our top exports to China are <checks notes> Coal and petroleum. Nice. So that helps make some Canadians wealthier, then they burn our coal and gas (likey to manufacture just a small percentage of the stuff that ends up back on our store shelves) and all that goes on their emission data, not ours. Sneaky, eh?