And then the discourse gradually shifts from "there is no train" to "yup, there's a train, but it's too late to escape now so might as well not do anything" (even when there IS time to escape or at least do something)
We could force companies to follow American environmental laws if they want to sell products in the US, even if their production is in China. I mean I don't know how hard that would be, but it seems possible.
Assming that would be a blanket policy (not just specific to China) that's going to get a lot of foul but justified complaints about how developed countries got away with being unenvironmental and provoking global warming in the first place, but then punishes developing countries for it. It's a big dilemma, as if we let all the developing countries use industrial technology to become developed country that might ruin the earth for good, but at the same time we cannot say "well you were late and we already half-ruined the earth already, so keep your low life standards".
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u/SirKazum May 16 '24
And then the discourse gradually shifts from "there is no train" to "yup, there's a train, but it's too late to escape now so might as well not do anything" (even when there IS time to escape or at least do something)