There is no such thing as "excessive use of raw materials." Please understand this, people. We can use as many raw materials as we want or need. There is nothing evil about the use of energy, water, oil, coal, or minerals. How much pollution this use causes depends on how these activities are managed, and in the West we manage them very well. This is not the case with India and China, which are massive polluters -- and I'm not talking about carbon dioxide, which is not a pollutant, I'm talking about garbage, plastics, waste, heavy metals, particulates in the air, poison in the rivers. We do an excellent job overall of avoiding this pollution. India, China, and most Third World countries do an incredibly shitty job. That's the reality. We in the West should be praised, not criticized -- we need to be pointing the finger at the true offenders, and it isn't Western countries.