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This sounds like "Great White Father" stuff to me. Are wealthy countries really so suited to telling poorer ones what they may and may not do to join the wealthy?

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Yes. It's imperfect but that's the way it is, it's already in place with 'Nuclear Non Proliferation' [1] and many other things. It's a 'free world' until interests are threatened, then you see where the balance of power is, moreover, there are legitimate issues of responsibility here. Canada, Japan, Ukraine, Brazil, Cameroon - all different places in so many ways, it is what it is. That's diversity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferatio...

EDIT: FYI I'm being a bit tounge-in-cheek with the garbage thing, I realize 'Rich Countries' don't do sewage and garbage perfectly well either, which is partly the point. The other point is that other places are objectively much worse.

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