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by JumpCrisscross 1129 days ago
> "we" in the OECD countries simply moved our polluting industry to poor countries

Carbon intensity of GDP, worldwide, fell almost 40% between 1980 and 2021 [1]. (-1.3% CAGR.)

We do offshore toxic industries. But we're also getting better at being less toxic. Environmentalism isn't all a shell game.

[1] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/co2-emissions...