I think western governments also manage their environmental impact downwards only as much as is possible without redistributing significant amounts of resources

I think western governments also manage their environmental impact downwards only as much as is possible without redistributing significant amounts of resources to the problem. I.e. they currently only look at lower hanging fruit , and to me it does not look like this will be sufficient to stay within the 1.5 deg warming target (even when disregarding countries reducing their emissions by less amounts). Look for example at the actions Germany is taking [1]. [1] https://www.aicgs.org/2019/10/germanys-new-climate-package-too-little-too-late/ https://www.aicgs.org/2019/10/germanys-new-climate-package-t...