The Plan: Convince Western countries, which are mostly some form of republic or a parliamentary system emulating one, to lower their citizens' living standards

The Plan: Convince Western countries, which are mostly some form of republic or a parliamentary system emulating one, to lower their citizens' living standards, in order to theoretically set a better example of resource usage for developing countries, who will 100% ignore this supposed role-modeling anyway because they actually want the best possible living standards, like most people do, and they have a point that even if we start limiting things now, we didn't artificially limit ourselves for the past 100 years, so why should they not get their turn at cheap growth? That's a pretty tricky plan. Just asking voters to accept even minor inconveniences like "Hey maybe let's not install indoor gas stoves in new construction going forward because they literally poison our indoor air" was met with fiery rage. Telling people they'll have to just consume a lot less plastic, fuel, etc. to leave more for developing countries is political suicide.