what if every country had the same rights

to pollution and extinction? Industrialised nations have been polluting the planet for over 200 years now. China and India have been overpopulating the planet. Brazil has been deforesting the planet. What if the Chinese and Indians thumbed the world and polluted it at the same rate as the already westernised countries, would we be justified in putting sanctions on them and bombing them to get them to comply with us? I assume I am part of the us and we who tell the rest of the world how to behave? What gives me that right? I am part of the culture that the them and they aspire to - them and they want to migrate to the lands of the we and us; not too many of the we and us want to migrate to the lands of the they and them. Is this an argument for anything? If the lifestyle of the we and us is sought after by the they and them, that does not necessarily give moral rights. So where does this leave people who are on the fringes, caught in a half way world of development and tradition?