> 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. But it's a two-way street. The so-called third world did not decide to deforest in order to grow oil palms and soy in a vacuum, it did it because there was huge demand for those from the so-called first world.