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if we don’t have any other advantage versus some “cheap player”… [/quote]
How do you develop advantages when you strip mine your own industry and send it elsewhere?
Seriously. I used to live in Detroit. There’s many plots of land in the Detroit area with serious industrial pollution. Steel plants in PA, etc. Same thing.
You can start up and compete, in a more sustainable way, but the large corporations have moved their plants to Mexico or China, where there still dumping all the external costs into the environment.
On a PPP/GDP basis, China is still at twice our greenhouse gas output. On an actual nominal dollar GDP basis more like triple.
As a metaphor, it be like our country saying we will import all the Blue Fin tuna we want from Chinese fishermen while our Fisherman have strict regulations on catch limits and sizes.
