Our efforts to handle climate change have been a joke.
1. We outsource mfg to china, the pollution is global and its still done, just not in our backyard. Even worse, the factories in China have less restrictions, so the net effect is worse pollution. Don't forget about shipping product across the globe by boat.
2. We stop using coal and moved to NG and other power source. Less coal is good, right? Well, that means less demand from the US, which drives down coal cost. That means China can burn even more coal even more cheaply.
Guess what happens when we move off oil? Chinese would love that. Drive up costs in the US, drive down China's and makes them even better for manufacturing and distribution.
It's not that we shouldn't make changes, but it needs to be logical. Knee jerk feel-good solutions aren't solutions, it is busywork that fails in the original goal.
It's like shutting down a country to avoid covid. That's cool, but its crippling your economy and it won't help because the other countries in the world are on the same planet as yours, and unless you've been able to seal your country off, you'll just get it again from a foreign visitor. Shutting down to avoid hospitals overflowing is logical, but the current shutdowns of the last few months aren't being done with that goal.
