[freeflight]

The very same economic globalization that turns out to be rather destructive to the environment?

I wonder if such problems might not end up forcing us to reconsider our trading priorities to account more for geographical distance, instead of just taking that as a given.

[bcrosby95]

The US seems to be geographically closer to Europe than China, so I'm not sure how this point would make Europe choose China over the US.

[mattrp]

I don’t think I said anything about physical proximity.