Submitted by Straight_Ad2258 t3_10qmzze in UpliftingNews
Purple-Country4271 t1_j6sb621 wrote
Always easy to make a"Transition" when you just export your pollution abroad 😶.
mjfi4cp2 t1_j6t9w4z wrote
Are you referring to the manufacturing of hardware like solar panels and wind turbines?
pdonchev t1_j6tcuov wrote
Not only. "Transitioning" countries in Europe don't have sufficient sources of electrical energy in the winter (also in summer, but winter is the bulk of the deficit) and happily import cheap dirty energy from other countries, while bragging about being a clean economy. And then you have the biggest bulshit of the 21th century so far, the gas-backed solar and wind. Where the gas sometimes is the bigger source. And then you have the wind turbines that not only have embedded a lot of dirty (and cheap) energy, but when installed they would not recuperate even this energy during their operating lifetime, but the economies work because you sell the smaller quantity of clean energy at a much bigger price.
To measure impact on the earth, the emissions for all exports should be subtracted from a country's pollution footprint, and added, together with the transportation emissions, to the footprint of the importing country. Then the charade will be clear - for now powerful (rich) governments mostly externalize emissions (in the process increasing them), while their countries continue to be the largest emitters by a large margin.
mjfi4cp2 t1_j6te78b wrote
[citation needed]
TendiesMeWant t1_j6tpja3 wrote
This has been debunked before
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