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The narrative that manufacturing was outsourced to China and India and those same were then blamed for carbon emissions removes agency from China and India.

If they want manufacturing industry, then they should acknowledge the externalities that come with that.

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But we want the things they manufacture. I'm arguing for sharing the agency, not putting it all on the UK and others. The climate doesn't care about borders. There's a global demand for manufacturing, we just don't want it in our own backyards.

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