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You’ve heard of outsourced jobs, but outsourced pollution? It's real, and tough to tally
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You’ve heard of outsourced jobs, but outsourced pollution? It's real, and tough to tally

Many wealthy countries have effectively "outsourced" a big chunk of their carbon pollution overseas, by importing more steel, cement and other goods from factories in China and other places, rather than producing it domestically. It's a headache to calculate.

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