[who_would_fardels_bear]

There might be one unintended good side-effect to all of this:

If things can be manufactured here with a lower carbon footprint than in foreign countries with laxer environmental controls, then we might get some of our manufacturing base back.

But of course the Chinese will lie and we will get the worst of all possible worlds: fewer jobs here, and more pollution there.

[Nervous Tick]

But of course the Chinese will lie and we will get the worst of all possible worlds: fewer jobs here, and more pollution there.

I have seen a term being kicked around to describe the phenomenon you speak of.

"Carbon leakage".