[stormqloud]

Funny how nobody mentions 15 large container ships like this generate as much emissions as all the cars in the world combined.

It's almost like buying products from slaves in Asia and transporting them across the ocean is bad for the planet and the citizens of the planet.

[rmah]

Do people not understand how insulting it is to call people in poorer nations who work hard to build a better lives for themselves and their families by making the crap you buy "slaves" is? Am I the only one who gets annoyed by this?

[stormqloud]

The people who work at amazon warehouses are slaves too. Being a slave is about being abused in a working environment. It has nothing to do with racism.

They make the crap, make slave wages, amazon flys it over and makes all the $$$. You should get excited about that.

[BBC-vs-neolibs]

Except maybe to the actual slaves? Uyghurs aren't exactly volunteering to work in those factories.

[DC1350]

They’re rental slaves. Anyone living paycheque to paycheque is. If your employer didn’t pay you anything but provided you with everything you and your family needed, with nothing left over so you have nothing to support you if you quit, that would be slavery. This is the same thing. Does it make you feel better to pretend it’s not true?

[stormqloud]

They pay just enough to survive, but not enough to plan for the future, improve your position in life, or be finacially stable enough to be a thoughtcrime troublemaker.

[telchar]

NOx/SOx emissions specifically. People repeat that statistic a lot and mix it up between noxious particulate emissions and climate-changing CO2 emissions. To be clear, cars emit far more CO2 than the largest container ships.

[paozac]

Do you have a source for these numbers?

[stormqloud]

https://www.cadmatic.com/en/resources/articles/does-one-ship...

Fixing the environment is no more complicated then making our products in our own countries and paying appropriate wages.

Instead we let China pollute the planet with coal power plants and ships that pollute.