{"id":418398,"date":"2026-05-08T19:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418398\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:34:13","slug":"blaming-asia-and-mexico-for-us-pollution-is-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418398\/","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":418399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[37072,2300,3071,15583,273,6820,111,139,69,57694,640,39405,147,90177,41050,9880],"class_list":["post-418398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-air-quality","tag-asia","tag-cities","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-environment","tag-mexico","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-phoenix","tag-regulation","tag-salt-lake-city","tag-science","tag-smog","tag-u-s-environmental-protection-agency","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}