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Would the west have been so free with resource draining and pollution if we'd had satellites and environmental state monitoring from say 1850?

Ozone holes and CFC levels and ocean acidity and fish stocks and algal blooms and ground water levels and contamination and whatever else.

"We shouldn't tell them what to do" has a moral balance to it, but it doesn't create more unpolluted planet or undo the mess already made.