Times have been too good for too long in NA. In order to live the good life, we have given up a large part of our productive capacity, in order to buy cheap goods from China. And in so doing we have participated in the pollution of our planet and created a powerful enemy.
IMO there has to be penalties or consequences for pollution. Just eliminating coal from the energy mix would be a huge contribution in fighting Climate Change.
Until we stop buying stuff from China, who are producing a huge portion of the goods we consume, using coal as their energy source, we have to admit we are party to the pollution by these countries. If we truly want to stop pollution we have to stop this practice.
The only way I see this happening is to put tariffs on Chinese goods, which would obviously have extreme economic and political repercussions. However, IMO this may be the only way to affect change, as it relates to the use of coal by China.
Of course selling China our lower polluting LNG to displace the coal would help. However, the people running our country do not have the brain power to figure that one out.
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