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The Prius causes more environmental damage than a Range Rover . . .?
The BBC reported that due to mining extractions, shipping and processing . . . the Prius causes more environmental damage than the Range Rover (the equivalent of the Ford Explorer, but much nicer). The minerals are extracted in Canada, shipped to China, refined in China (which has absolutely zero environmental legislation), shipped to Japan for molding and manufacturing and then shipped again to final destination in England . . .
The Range Rover which is manufactured entirely in England, taking into account it’s gas guzzler status, does no where near the environmental damage of the Prius over the life span of the car . . .
So, should environmental regulations be geared towards total “carbon” output ? Should the U.S. opt out of environmental regulations all together and concentrate on environmental tax? It’s the only way that I can think of that benefits both the U.S. worker and the environment . . .
Any thoughts?
Oh, I loved this episode of “Boston Legal” when Alan Shore got up and argued this point in order to allow a guy to kill the California Seal to eat.
Um, er, sorry.
But it is true, if you are going to argue about saving the planet, you must argue in the entirety of the cycle. The mining methods used are worse to get the metals to make the battery that they are for the raw materials. The needless shipping of raw materials over seas and the finished product back. It kills me that environmentalists demand processing plants and factories be shut down, then complain when jobs are lost or an item has to be imported from an “enemy” county like China.
Hey they even attack the notion of building carbon scrubbers that would in one week eliminate more CO2 from the air than is produced in a year (that’s nearly ready for market). They don’t want clean air, they want to shut down manufacturing, it seems.
So, the answer, if there is one, is to do a whole product/system measure and bring the work back home.
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