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> ... undeveloped countries who will bring their unsustainable cultures with them.

I hope you are aware of the carbon footprint of an american versus someone from, say, ethiopia?!

Once they move to the US they have a high carbon footprint like anyone else there. Their culture won't change though, that takes many generations and a relatively homogeneous culture to assimilate into which is going away (largely due to attitudes like this.)

Doesnt matter how small of a footprint the Ethiopian has. The Ethiopian is an exponential function, and the Westerner is a linear one. The exponential function will always overtake the linear function. Eventually.

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