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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.

"Africans just can't help themselves destroying Africa" is a really weird take for a supposedly anti-imperialist background. Also seems to reduce all of the West to just the USA, which... first of all seems odd, second of all seems to equate "the American Dream" with "increase pollution at all costs" and not much else.

The idea that all of Africa will always choose fossil fuels and pollution even if clean energy is cheaper is hard to believe. Setting aside that an entire continent having the same economic opinion is highly unlikely, it seems to me that the only people who would choose Pollution Uber Alles are the legacy fossil fuel companies that have a vested interest in it. Nobody else benefits.