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Stuff kills
Chinese miners and our appetite for cheap crap |
Tom Philpott |
01 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| As the United States has outsourced its industrial base to China over the last two decades, millions of manufacturing jobs have disappeared. But the trend has also allowed us to shed a lot of unpleasantness: industrial waste, air pollution, etc. The move also eased the burden on our electrical grid. The energy needed to produce clothes, electrical gadgets, industrial equipment, etc. no longer comes from our power generators. But greenhouse gases are a fungible sub ... |
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| Topics: China, climate, consumerism, economy, energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, mining (all these topics) |
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