European ports are being used as trading hubs for fuel that is too dirty – and dangerous – to be sold in the EU. No prizes for guessing where it ends up instead.
    • Car@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Same as any other energy cost. Modern societies rely on some type of energy to exist. Maybe the poor people will suffer because they can’t afford to fill up their vehicles with the cheaper dirty fuel and miss out on work opportunities. Maybe everybody suffers because the cheaper dirty fuel catalyzes harmful pollutants into the air which everybody breathes.

      I guess it’s easy to say don’t buy cheap fuel because it’s bad for you, but if the alternative means not having a job or something to people with little to lose, that’s a call that’s harder to sell.

      • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Good thing for sweatshops eh. Otherwise those 11yo girls in Bangladesh would have no other choice but to sell their bodies. I reject your preposition that there aren’t alternatives that don’t involve mortgaging the bodies of the most vulnerable people on earth. We have more than enough global productivity to meet the needs of everyone safely.