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Default Carbon footprint question

In article ,
David Hansen wrote:
I can guess that something made in China has a bigger carbon footprint
than the same thing made in the UK because of transposrt


The manufacturers of the ship full of toys which arrived from China
before Christmas claimed that the carbon emissions of ships are
surprisingly low. Similar claims are made by exporters of New
Zealand lamb.


They are indeed per kilo per mile - far lower than air, road or rail. If
they weren't we wouldn't get cheap goods from so far away.

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