Why Are There Ethical Concerns About Pressuring Poor Countries to Industrialize

question 57

Multiple Choice

Why are there ethical concerns about pressuring poor countries to industrialize in an environmentally friendly way?

• A)Wealthy countries are imposing their own beliefs about the environment on 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 and are now asking poor countries to not do the same.
• D)Poor countries may be offended by the suggestion that they do not value a clean environment.
• E)Some of the new environmentally friendly technologies may be more dangerous for workers than older technologies.

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