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polopili posted...

Industry's goal is still to provide goods that will be used by regular people. There might be a whole bunch transformation steps between what comes out of an an iron mine and the end product of an F-150 truck, but in the end the iron mine is still part of the industry that produces consumer goods. Greenhouse gas emission goes much further than just the electricty/gas bill.

It's part of the reason why it's not productive to compare individual countries performance in greenhouse gas. What part of China's CO2 was used to make goods that were shipped to other countries? Should we blame the country that produced them or ones who ordered them?

The one that produced them. As said, people require goods because... Hell, we're not all going to be farming blacksmith engineer architects by trade. And as mentioned, environmental concerns aren't new, and a lot of them started noticing it and requesting change in the mid 80s. They just favor the cheapest way to do it, and I can understand that... But now we're at a point where we have to question why the fuck haven't they done more than the bare minimum in almost half a century? Wouldn't it have been easier to implement these things and research then over that time as opposed to getting to the proverbial wire?

When is the point we stop blaming the average Joe for needing these things to continue on with every day life as opposed to the countries and corporations opting to destroy everything on their path for the bottom line, including our future?