The people in power don't want to admit that consumerism and "green" are not complementary ideas. "Green" in the context of creating more products does nothing to reduce waste.
Imagine a country that exports petrolium, ships it across the Pacific to be processed into disposable consumer goods, which get shipped back to the original country and consoomed, then are shipped back across the Pacific for disposal, at which point they're thrown in the ocean.
Obviously, the best thing to do to deal with pointless waste in this, purely hypothetical, country is to tax the sale of farm trucks...
You've outlined an area of energetic waste that, once ESG taxes and credits come into play, it will finally be cheaper to run factories and produce in the US again.
In the next decade, the world's reliance on China and Asia for production will continue to decrease.
The green industry hasn't been about the environment for a very long time,
The people in power don't want to admit that consumerism and "green" are not complementary ideas. "Green" in the context of creating more products does nothing to reduce waste.
Imagine a country that exports petrolium, ships it across the Pacific to be processed into disposable consumer goods, which get shipped back to the original country and consoomed, then are shipped back across the Pacific for disposal, at which point they're thrown in the ocean.
Obviously, the best thing to do to deal with pointless waste in this, purely hypothetical, country is to tax the sale of farm trucks...
You've outlined an area of energetic waste that, once ESG taxes and credits come into play, it will finally be cheaper to run factories and produce in the US again.
In the next decade, the world's reliance on China and Asia for production will continue to decrease.
I quit zetowaste because it's all slight of hand, and smoke and mirrors.
This is why nuclear is always off the table. Can't have real solutions, just need the peons to accept green new deals and other power grabs.