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Every time we mandate that some product can't be produced in the West, China gladly fills the gap, burning huge amounts of brown coal in the process. Why do you think they have a global monopoly on solar cell and lithium battery production? They are incredibly energy-intensive processes.

It would be like, in your analogy, somehow by putting out your own fire, someone else's house started burning.



Or more like, you can put out your own fire by lighting several other houses on fire deliberately, and blaming them for the fires.




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