North American standards of living are just not sustainable in the long run - i remember reading it would take something like 8 earths to support everyone if the entire world had NA's standard of living.
We cannot stop countries from raising their standards of living - I mean we can, i suppose, but damn that would be pretty ####ing cruel.
It's inevitable that many developing nations will demand more and more resources, which will increase the prices of said resources to a point where NA will have to lower their standard of living.
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