When they pivoted from global warming to climate change they might as well have said we have no idea what we’re talking about. I’m all for a cleaner environment but as somebody who’s been just about everywhere in Asia we aren’t the problem. Get these 3rd world countries out of poverty and they’ll eventually clean up their pollution.
No one said give them money. What they need is more freedom and economic independence. Being a factory worker working 16 hour days making a few cents an hour is only marginally better than being a dirt farmer. They are stuck in the industrial revolution with few rights, cheap wages, and overlords who profit from their misery (China). China is taking in billions off the labor of their citizens, participating in global capitalism without allowing their workers to reap the same rewards.
As long as “the west” keeps buying their cheap goods the status quo will remain in place.
This is why you need protectionist tariffs to build a country. Then after that happens maybe opening the country to foreign competition is a possibility.
When they pivoted from global warming to climate change they might as well have said we have no idea what we’re talking about. I’m all for a cleaner environment but as somebody who’s been just about everywhere in Asia we aren’t the problem. Get these 3rd world countries out of poverty and they’ll eventually clean up their pollution.
No one said give them money. What they need is more freedom and economic independence. Being a factory worker working 16 hour days making a few cents an hour is only marginally better than being a dirt farmer. They are stuck in the industrial revolution with few rights, cheap wages, and overlords who profit from their misery (China). China is taking in billions off the labor of their citizens, participating in global capitalism without allowing their workers to reap the same rewards.
As long as “the west” keeps buying their cheap goods the status quo will remain in place.
This is why you need protectionist tariffs to build a country. Then after that happens maybe opening the country to foreign competition is a possibility.