Us or them?

Here is what happens when America (and the Western World in general) is paralyzed with the guilt.

We should go ahead andd drill for oil here. Because whoever else will do it will do it worse - would you rather Mr. Chavez set the ecological standard? Or the Chinese?

We should go ahead and take over the decaying African messes. Would you rather Saudi Arabia do it, like the do in Sudan? Or China, again, as in the linked article?

We should bring back polluting industries on our shores, because no matter how bad they are here, they are worse in China.

How long will China's smog subsidize our national parks? How long will China's exploited workers unions? How long will China's brutality subsidize our paralysis of will in failed countries?

The article gives us all a glimpse of what the world will be like if US will slip into a coma that already claimed England, the coma that France never left since WW1 or even earlier. Do you like it?