One photograph is worth a thousand words
US corporations have shipped hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of US jobs from the US to China. These corporations exported jobs from the US in part because they could avoid US environmental laws. The result is that the US has exported massive amounts of pollution to China, and with all the health benefits and carbon emissions, and I mean that sarcastically if accurately.
In February 2013, the Guardian reported that, “Beijing residents were urged to stay indoors on Thursday as pollution levels soared before a sandstorm brought further misery to China’s capital.
A thick blanket of smog covered large swathes of the country in the morning, causing residents to once again dig out face-masks as China’s grueling winter of pollution continues.
The noxious haze saw the US embassy’s air quality index reading for Beijing hit 516 at 6am, signaling air quality worse than the highest classification of hazardous.”
That’s one of the cool things about free trade if you’re a member of the 1 percent. Profits before people, the environment and life itself. In other words, those who support free trade while claiming that it helps the environment are lying, and they know it.
