Mentioned in the article “With wealth comes a cleaner environment.”
I have been saying this for quite some time. Once they destroy/redistribute the wealth, we will not have enough left over to care about a clean environment. The environmentalists will be puzzled when this happens. They only have to open their eyes to see it in practice.
Yes, I’ve been saying that as well. Thanks for the reminder!
Maybe. To be fair we would need to look at the long term. It's likely that we did a decent amount of damage in the getting there phase, so it may take some time for the net to be a gain.
But we also get to claim some credit. Cleaner technologies and the like that came out of our development can be utilized by developing nations, so we can make the claim that we have offset some of the damage they would have done, but no longer need to.