You miss some of my point. The chip industry's "addiction to neoconservative business practices" is not all built on ideology. It's an extremely dirty industry in terms of pollution of the environment.

It looks "clean" because there is no smoke or bad smells coming from the factories but it is an EXTREMELY toxic industry. Taiwan is, in a sense, a "Global sacrifice zone" environmentally.

People see the wealth it generates but not the environmental harm it causes. Because they flush it away into the Pacific.

What do you propose?

Chip plants in Scotland to take advantage of the rainwater with the toxic waste dumped into the North Sea? Then just declare all fish caught there as contaminated and not fit for human consumption for the next say, 1,000 years?

Is that the deal you want to make?

Maybe you do. Those chip fab facilities are very profitable. But, if you are going to argue that. People are entitled to know all the facts.