{"id":475452,"date":"2026-05-08T22:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/475452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:53:24","slug":"blaming-asia-and-mexico-for-us-pollution-is-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/475452\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaming Asia and Mexico for US Pollution Is Absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Pollution, like money, is fungible. Once you breathe carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it\u2019s interchangeable with all the other CO2 on the planet, just like how, when you deposit $20 into your bank account, it\u2019s inseparable from the $40 that\u2019s already there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Fungibility shouldn\u2019t mean immunity from consequences, however. If that $20 comes from, say, selling fentanyl to schoolchildren, then the police can seize your $60 in assets, at least temporarily. And if you\u2019re spewing pollution into the air, then you should be held accountable for your part in befouling the entire atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pollution, like money, is fungible. Once you breathe carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it\u2019s interchangeable with all the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[26223,2786,4912,10948,18,440,19,17,388,27469,11994,10093,133,100141,64264,12160],"class_list":{"0":"post-475452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-air-quality","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-cities","11":"tag-donald-john-trump","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-mexico","17":"tag-phoenix","18":"tag-regulation","19":"tag-salt-lake-city","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-smog","22":"tag-u-s-environmental-protection-agency","23":"tag-view"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116541417487681903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}