By "western society", I think you mean the society that created REAL HEALTH PROBLEMS like aerial nuclear tests, mustard gas, smog, lead poisoning, chlorofluorocarbons, acid rain and other things that needed banning. This process is ongoing, and the benefits are for all. Go and look at asthma statistics for Los Angeles since 1970...
You can sit back smugly and wait for the millions of refugees to descend on Europe from Subsaharan Africa and Central/Southern America as their homelands become more arid, driving them north, or watch as global fishery catches dive because of eutrophication and ocean acidification.
This is no fiction - already these are burning issues in America and EU this year.
Forget your apocalyptic scenarios - there have been many environmental problems of the past that we fixed because they made people sick, and now we need to fix the environmental problems that are making people hungry and killing sealife.
Westen Society has done IMMENSE damage to the planet,eg
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When talking about fracking, people almost always IGNORE the fact that they are pumping masses of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... into the ground, without taking responsibility for the consequences. Be assured that the next few generations will be cursing yours for that and filling the earth's orbital space with 300,000+ pieces of junk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S....
There is no "business as usual", we all need to be acting responsibly for our own health and others.