Why are there ethical concerns about pressuring poor countries to industrialize in an environmentally friendly way?
A)Wealthy countries are sacrificing their own environmental welfare in order to improve the environmental welfare of poor countries.
B)Poor countries will not benefit from improving the environment as much as wealthy countries will.
C)Wealthy countries caused the pollution problem while industrializing nations are now asking poor countries not to do the same.
D)Some new environmentally friendly technologies may be more dangerous for workers than older technologies.

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Wealthy countries, which have already industrialized in a polluting manner, are now asking underprivileged countries that are struggling economically to industrialize in an environmentally friendly manner. This is unfair because it places an unequal burden on the latter. Additionally, the wealthy countries have benefited from their own pollution activities while the poor countries are unlikely to reap the same benefits as they industrialize in an environmentally friendly manner.

Why Are There Ethical Concerns About Pressuring Poor Countries to Industrialize