Per capita China pollutes less than USA and they are the factory of the world. They produce most things. If usa would had to produce what things it consumes, the pollution would skyrocket.

Does it smell like desperation, hunger, poverty and displacement?

That's not true, most shifted from fetal bovine serum, one example is Mosa Meat, they excluded a animal products from the process since 2019. It was extremely expensive anyway.