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"Developing countries like India and China must hold the blame for heating up the earth and destabilising the climate". Is this statement a classic example of environmental colonialism?

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Yes. The statement is a classic example of environmental colonialism because countries which are already developed (and were colonisers) have also caused damage to the earth in their own processes of development.

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