The title is a bit exaggerated, but the problem is real - how much of the "clean" high-minded Western solutions rely on the backing of the practices that would

The title is a bit exaggerated, but the problem is real - how much of the "clean" high-minded Western solutions rely on the backing of the practices that would be appalling and impossible to tolerate in the West, to be practical? Energy production - and production in general - has its risks and its costs, and there's a very real tendency of solving these problems by just shipping them away to the places where the press does not reach and consider them solved. The shining (or stinking) example is the "recycling" system based on collecting plastic waste in the West, and shipping it to South-East Asia, where huge part of it is just dumped into the rivers. Another example is energy policy, where "clean" Western energy is relying on very non-clean sources and practices.