China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.

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    9 months ago

    China pollutes so much because George HW Bush and Bill Clinton pushed American jobs to China so CEOs could make bank on huge profits on cheap labor, unsafe work places, and near zero environmental regulation that was impossible in the United States. We built China by disregarding worker rights and the environment and we are paying for it dearly.

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      9 months ago

      So did the US Presidents force China to not implement any environmental safeguards for their manufacturing? I don’t think so.

      Sure the corporations send the orders to China, and they pay for them, putting the money into China’s economy. But China as a sovereign nation is still responsible for the pollution that it creates. They should implement strong environmental protection regulations to fix that.

      I would prefer if American corporations sent their manufacturing orders to American factories, but I have no control over that or China’s environmental regulations. They should both do better.

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      9 months ago

      Why are we even bothering blaming politicians? Companies moved production over to cut costs and Americans wanted cheap shit. We could have all just bought made in America in the 80s if we cared, that would have been the time to make a stand while the transition was still happening.

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        9 months ago

        It is government’s job to make sure international trade is done according to some basic rules, including labor and environment. Business’ only metric is profits.

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          9 months ago

          The idea that businesses are only responsible to make profits is a newer one (can’t say new it’s been decades) and one that is trending away imho