Go ahead. Start the wheels. Grease the skids. Others will follow the precedent. And in the end the world will see total peace with only deep sea creatures alive. Maybe they'll evolve a better sapiens. Let's roll..
They made it us or them. It will be them. Your country will be too close to the blind giant when it starts stomping, and without any claim on its gratitude.
Fortunately America is 12,000 miles upwind.