Want to bring it to the white house ? <| sep |> Yeah honestly scary how accurate it is haha <| sep |> I think that , if China and India are doing this , it ' s for a few reasons . One , they industrialized so quickly that they probably never did have fossil fuel lobbies as old , established , politically entrenched and influential as America does . Two , they industrialized so quickly that they could see the devastation pollution causes in front of their eyes . Forests burned , whole species wiped out RIP , Yangtze river dolphin . , and most of all , the air is poisonous and visibly filthy . In the US , we ' ve had destructive boom times as well as some environmental actions like the Clean Air Act . The destruction of the environment is slower here , the pollution less visible , and so people do little about it and care less . India and China could not possibly ignore the effects of such rapid growth . In any case , I really don ' t care who helps limit the damage of climate change as long as it gets done . If the US wants to shoot itself in the foot until it can ' t keep up in the race , so be it .