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The United States is the only industrialized country without universal health care, despite the popularity of Medicare for All in several surveys.

Governments in wealthy industrialized nations act as if refugees can be treated as someone else’s problem if they simply fortify their borders or pay developing nations to continue to host millions of displaced people.

For instance, the Montreal Protocol set out only to slow production of CFCs, but, by 1997, industrialized countries had stopped production entirely, far sooner than was thought possible.

Birth rates do decline as countries industrialize, but they don’t stop falling when they reach replacement level.