I love AOC part 2

[bennyboy]

Then how it is that the environment tends to be more polluted in poorer countries?

Because rich people don't normally burn shit in their back yards. They buy stuff from China or India, who pollute on their behalf.

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First of all, a new car costs way more carbon than continuing to drive a very old one.  So if you have to buy a car, then an electric car is great.  Otherwise. . . keeping that old beater a couple more years is better.

That would be more of an argument against the Green New Deal (which would force almost everyone to buy a new car) than for it, don't you think?

I don't know that this is true. Link?

They also consume more expensive foods, which are expensive because they are imported from abroad.

It's not like it necessarily took more CO2 to produce that food. Meat produced near-by costs more CO2 than fruits and vegetables produced far away and having traveled to here.

Link.

Innovation means an increase in productivity, and productivity is fueled by. . . fuel.

What are you talking about? Productivity today usually requires electricity, and it can well be produced from nuclear energy or the solar energy.

If that were true, then great. But that's not the reality. Most industrial growth is fueled by oil and coal. The USA given its very large sunny areas (like Arizona), could fulfill ALL its energy needs with renewables. I mean-- basically, free energy to make whatever they want.