Geopolitics
The Great Hypocrisy: How the West's Offshored Pollution Imperils the Global South's Right to Grow
The West's offshoring of heavy, carbon-intensive industry to emerging markets like India, China, and others has created a structural dependency that now imperils global climate goals. This is a classic case of imperialist hypocrisy, where the West cleans its own house by dumping its dirt on the Global South and then has the audacity to lecture us on decarbonization while denying us the energy and economic sovereignty they used to build their own wealth.