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You missed the point.

Us not polluting is, obviously, great news.

What we had to do to get to get here is the bad news. We chose to invest cash we don't have in fixing a problem we don't (really) cause and to which we don't (really) have a solution for. This, while 1/4 of the population earns minimum wage. My conclusion still stands.

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Not to invalidate what you're saying, but surely every country has it's problems? While the problems you sight are significant, if this has been the case for a while, would they have been resolved if all the money had not been invested into renewables?

It sounds like culturally, those problems would still exist today i.e. due to corruption, but at least you have the renewables in place, as opposed to not have them.

I feel like you're looking for an ideal version that doesn't exist in reality.

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