The USA is a rich nation. I grew up in Ohio when the Cuyahoga River caught fire. When Lake Erie was a polluted mess, and when a grey cloud hung over every major city.
Due to our wealth, we could afford to clean up the mess. It ain't perfect, but things are better.
Poor countries can't afford to worry about the environment. They worry about survival. Destroy our economy at the feet of Gaia and we will slide back to same survival mode.
Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.
The Cuyahoga River is “clean” today because all the steel mills and heavy industry are gone in Cleveland.
I remember those days too, used to drive through Cleveland late at night and the sky was lit up by furnaces from countless foundries & steel mills, etc.
Yes, pumping out a lot of smoke, but producing US heavy metal and a lot of good paying jobs.
No more.
Now the skies are blue & waters clean, but...
Today the metal & jobs are in China or elsewhere and our guys flip burgers or greet you at Wal-Mart.
You know, if there was a politician who figured out how to bring those jobs back, I'd vote for him.
I know, let's call it M.A.G.A., do you think?