That's because humanitarian efforts have been spearheaded by well meaning imbeciles up 'til now. They've tried to provide what in America would be called welfare, and you're right, their booming populations can no longer sustain their former standards of living (which weren't very high to begin with). Now they haven't a choice, they must industrialize just to survive. Helping them to do so wouldn't be charity because we'd be profiting from it, but it would be the right thing to do, assuming we don't patronize the kinds of business that use slave labor or dump raw sewage into rivers. Since we can't undo the disruptions all our humanitarianism has caused then we may as well invite the rest of the world to join the twenty first century.
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