aboynamedbluetoo

aboynamedbluetoo OP t1_jdmc7o5 wrote

Environmental contamination is tough to avoid, but it should be avoided to the greatest extent possible.

The study I linked was done in China. Their environmental regulations and practices haven’t been great during their economic rise over the last fifty or so years. Much like ours weren’t when we rapidly industrialized. Same as it ever was.

And of course part of the reason for the offshoring of certain things to places like China over the last thirty plus years was a conscious effort by some to export externalities and avoid tighter, more costly regulations in more advanced economies. Out of sight, out of mind.

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