[JumpCrisscross]

> hard to take your argument seriously if you think that's more important than preserving the environment

Okay, go convince a few billion Indians and Chinese they should wait to industrialize because the environment can’t take it.

[jvanderbot]

What does this have to do with anything ITT?

[JumpCrisscross]

> What does this have to do with anything ITT?

Growth versus preservation. India is trashing its air quality burning coal near its cities. Yet that power is lifting millions out of poverty and into the world's second-largest middle class.

Everyone would prefer clean air ceteris paribus. But for a lot of those people, economic security is "more important than preserving the environment."