Exactly. It's pollution that we directly benefit from, it's not fair to think our countries are better at the protecting the environment when everything we buy is made there instead of having the dirty factories/industries in our own countries.
A few years ago it was "this isn't happening" now it's "these other people do it far worse than we do."
I also don't buy that if everyone was producing at smaller scales at home, this problem would be at all better. This is a consumption problem, not a "globalization" problem.
I agree with you that this is a consumption problem, but globalization is what has driven consumption for the past 30 years.
That's a hell of a caveat.
The “right” in the US is now staunchly in favor of trade wars instead of free trade. Not what you’d expect given their history.