How receptive does anyone think the US would've been in the early 19th Century, after Britain had gone through it's Industrial Revolution, to them telling us: "Hold on now,we had ours,but it's led to increased pollution and a depletion of natural resources,so your Industrial Revolution shouldn't be as fast or as large as ours."? Not too bloody receptive I think. And what if we said to Britain:"Well, why don't you slow down YOUR growth and impose constraints on YOUR industries to lessen the negative impact on the environment. We have just as much right to use the same methods you did to become industrialized don't we?" And they said to us:"Well, that would hurt OUR economy, and we've already polluted the environment and depleted natural resources for decades, but that doesn't mean you should get to do it too." "Up yer Union Jack," we would've said.