> The modern environmental movement seeks to limit how these countries can develop and what they can do with the natural resources of their countries by using W

> The modern environmental movement seeks to limit how these countries can develop and what they can do with the natural resources of their countries by using Western social, diplomatic, and economic pressure on these developing countries. To what end? I think I probably agree with you. I also see using traditionally imperial methods of interstate regulation as literally the only hope to slow global warming OR to decolonialize, so I’m not sure what your point is.