{"id":46811,"date":"2019-06-21T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46811"},"modified":"2019-06-21T13:15:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:15:11","slug":"connecting-the-dots-insane-trade-and-climate-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46811","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localfutures.org\/connecting-the-dots-insane-trade-and-climate-chaos\/\">Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.localfutures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Container_ships_President_Truman_IMO_8616283_and_President_Kennedy_IMO_8616295_at_San_Francisco.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.localfutures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Container_ships_President_Truman_IMO_8616283_and_President_Kennedy_IMO_8616295_at_San_Francisco.jpg?resize=356%2C230&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33979\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine a world where food routinely gets shipped thousands of miles away to be processed, then shipped back to be sold right where it started. Imagine&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/02\/world\/americas\/mexico-corn-nafta-trade.html\">cows from Mexico<\/a>being fed corn imported from the United States, then being exported to the United States for butchering, and the resulting meat being shipped back to Mexico, one last time, to be sold. Imagine a world in which, in most years since 2005, China has somehow managed to import more goods&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wits.worldbank.org\/CountryProfile\/en\/Country\/CHN\/Year\/2008\/Summarytext\"><em>from itself<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;than from the USA, one of its largest trading partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This may sound like the premise of some darkly comic, faintly dystopian film \u2013 albeit one geared towards policy wonks. But it\u2019s no joke \u2013 in fact, it is the daily reality of the global economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above examples are all instances of \u2018re-importation\u2019 \u2013 that is, countries shipping their own goods overseas only to ship them back again at a later stage in the production chain. And these are far from the only instances of this head-scratching phenomenon. In the waters off the coast of Norway, cod arrive every year after an impressive migratory journey, having swum thousands of miles around the Arctic Circle in search of spawning grounds. Yet this migration pales in comparison to the one the fish undertake after being caught: they\u2019re sent to China to be fileted before&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sverigesradio.se\/sida\/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&amp;artikel=6222316\">returning<\/a>&nbsp;to supermarkets in Scandinavia to be sold. This globalization of the seafood supply chain extends to the US as well; more than half of the seafood caught in Alaska is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskajournal.com\/2018-06-18\/fish-factor-alaska-seafood-exports-hit-tariffs-china\">processed<\/a>&nbsp;in China, and much of it gets&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/nw-salmon-sent-to-china-before-reaching-us-tables\/\">sent right back<\/a>&nbsp;to American grocery store shelves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting the Dots: Insane Trade and Climate Chaos Imagine a world where food routinely gets shipped thousands of miles away to be processed, then shipped back to be sold right where it started. Imagine&nbsp;cows from Mexicobeing fed corn imported from the United States, then being exported to the United States for butchering, and the resulting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[1230,7711,26112,805],"class_list":["post-46811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-climate-chaos","tag-local-futures","tag-sean-keller","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46812,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46811\/revisions\/46812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}