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Just sell domestic production as being "green".

"Container ships and overseas shipping use MASSIVE amounts of coal and oil. It's destroying the environment! Thats why we need to bring manufacturing back to the west. Also think of the homeless and homeless veterans. Don't we want to give them opportunities unlike corporate america that just wants cheap slave labor that promotes INEQUALITY?"

Also, when selling this, always use "carbon emissions AND pollution." rather than simply "carbon emissions."

For the people that already believe carbon emissions ARE pollution, it probably won't do anything. But by changing an OR to an AND, people who are skeptical get to claim they are being

  1. fair and balanced

  2. while simultaneously supporting bringing manufacturing back to america

  3. the 'and' splits the idea of carbon emissions FROM the idea of pollution, drawing a subtle line between the two. The implication being that carbon emissions are something OTHER than pollution, which is a message worth spreading.

Just sell domestic production as being "green". "Container ships and overseas shipping use MASSIVE amounts of coal and oil. It's destroying the environment! Thats why we need to bring manufacturing back to the west. Also think of the homeless and homeless veterans. Don't we want to give them opportunities unlike corporate america that just wants cheap slave labor that promotes INEQUALITY?" Also, when selling this, always use "carbon emissions AND pollution." rather than simply "carbon emissions." For the people that already believe carbon emissions ARE pollution, it probably won't do anything. But by changing an OR to an AND, people who are skeptical get to claim they are being 1. fair and balanced 2. while simultaneously supporting bringing manufacturing back to america 3. the 'and' splits the idea of carbon emissions FROM the idea of pollution, drawing a subtle line between the two. The implication being that carbon emissions are something OTHER than pollution, which is a message worth spreading.

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“It has been estimated that just one of these container ships, the length of around six football pitches, can produce the same amount of pollution as 50 million cars. The emissions from 15 of these mega-ships match those from all the cars in the world. And if the shipping industry were a country, it would be ranked between Germany and Japan as the sixth-largest contributor to CO2 emissions.”

https://medium.com/@victoria27/heres-how-much-pollution-shipping-containers-and-freight-trucks-cause-b358cb034c70

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It has been estimated that just one of these container ships, the length of around six football pitches, can produce the same amount of pollution as 50 million car

Excellent talking points.