Some years ago, I visited Mexico -- definitely not a rich country -- and what struck me was the number of factories on that side of the imaginary line. All of these factories belched vast amounts of smoke and who-knows-what-all into the air, as that country didn't have all the technology and draconian regulation that we do. And that was long before NAFTA, which opened the border gates for industry.
But we never hear of these Mexican factories causing climate change, or the other industries spotted in just about every duct-tape nation across the globe. They don't worry about climate change; that's up to the rich countries. It's just not politically correct to say otherwise.
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