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Originally Posted by scc

There's a couple of other reasons:

1. Africans see the American lifestyle in movies and on TV and want it, which means that devlopment occurs towards that, no matter what
2. Giving the advice is complicated, there's an aspect of 'Do as I say and not as I do' put also a parential or something componet to it that makes it hard.

Why build dirty power plants when you can build solar satellites and groundside receiver stations for far cheaper? Why use old gas-burning vehicles when you can get top-of-the-line electric vehicles for a fraction of the price? Why pollute your environment from landfills and dumping into rivers when the West will pay you for your waste? Because that's the situation the African people (and their leaders) would find themselves in if the West invested a fraction of what they would need to spend for terraforming three worlds into preventing Africa from becoming a toxic wasteland (to be clear, the reason the solar satellites/receivers, electric vehicles, etc cost so little is because the West is footing most of the bill).