Just one Google search of smog in China or India shows that they massively pollute beyond what we can imagine.
There used to be a PVC facility here in OKC. When the Sierra club / EPA cracked down on them they shut down that facility here along with a large amount of others like it and moved production to Mexico. Compliments of NAFTA they now don't have any pollution control or import taxes, laid off a lot of high paying U.S. jobs, then just truck the product up here.
So how did that help anything? Mexico now has a few more jobs but they are polluting the regions air and water because there is no ruling (would be paid off by corrupt officials anyways) and north America is now getting more pollution not less.
Last figures I saw China was starting up a new coal fired power plant a month. Yes some do have the latest and greatest emissions control devices installed. But every field engineer I know that has gone over there says none of it is ever turned on. So all it boils down to is persecuting us while giving the advantage to the up and coming countries whose government wants to see their country succeed.
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