Seems likely.

The reality, which is that that success and comfortable lifestyle is derived from what the “Americans” are doing, escapes them. So, they come here, recreate their home cultural conditions, and are then surprised by their failure and discomfort.

Flip side to that coin is the idiot Americans that think we have “magic dirt” that’s somehow going to automatically infect these people coming here with the attributes that make America American…

And the USA managed it in only a few hundred years. Too bad the poor countries spent all their time killing each other or creating societies that didn’t value enterprise or progress.

We not only did it ourselves, we actively try to show others how to do it, sending out advisors, missionaries, and money. But noooo, that would be like “work”; better to just demand entry and get it all for free!

The CFC crisis had rather more to do with DuPont continuing to make money than anything else. The CFCs were not ideal things to be pumping into the atmosphere, but there are two things to look at: The toxicity and effect of their replacements, and how DuPont sold the plants making R-12 on to the Indians and Chinese. So far as I know, those plants are still churning out R-12; witness the latest “scandal” about how they are finding it in the Chinese industrial outgassing. Also, as a data point, when I was in Kuwait and procuring materials for 4 ID, one of the more surreal experiences was finding a Kuwaiti industrial supplier who had not just a few containers of it for sale, but several freakin’ acres of R-12, available and ready-to-go. Production dates all in the late 1990s and early 2000s, contemporaneous with my time in Kuwait.

Gentlemen, I can’t prove it, but I’m about 90% certain that that whole deal was a scam, start to finish. No doubt, something similar will be done when the current set of refrigerant patents run out, and DuPont needs to find another cash cow. The environmentalists got used, IMHO. Which is what they’re there for.

I remember that prediction very well. By the year 2010 the ozone layer will be destroyed and we will all have to wear space suits to go out-of-doors. Remember that date well, 2010.

Even the really poor in Islamic societies don’t generate much.

Historically middle-income-range Islamic countries with ballooning populations of actual poor and overproducing of educated middle class young men. Egypt and Saudi alone are the big suppliers. Even Iraq was an artificially created market.