agreed...third world contries tend to burn very polluting fuels
In theory, I agree that we should help them to clean up their act, so to speak, and become self sufficient. In practice...
I am reminded of a economist I encountered while doing a research paper on credit cards and dept. The economist mentioned that our manufacturing base has eroded and is moving overseas to cheaper labor markets. The only job markets left, he noted, is the service related industry, the health care industry, and the technology sector. Because of the shrinking job market, he suggested that we would need larger social programs, and to pay for these programs, we should tax the technology sector heavily. Great idea in theory, disasterous in practice. In ten or twenty years, the wage scale will even out, and there will be no bid'nesses going overseas to cheaper labor markets. But what will America look like in ten or twenty years if we accelerate this exodus by industrializing third world countries and making them our rivals? We could enact trade treaties that would last a few years or so and protect our interests, then what?