You may have missed the overall picture, in your focus on "them" or "us"...and that is the over-arching fact of Climate Change. Simply putting in more infrastructure to burn more carbon, no matter who it benefits in the short run, in the slightly longer run will be the ruin of us all.  No, it is not an easy problem to solve - money is currently linked to oil and war - either on other peoples, or the environment. Sunlight is open and there for all, the wind is free, electric cars and passive housing are real - there are directions to move, given the will. But building more pipelines is burning the future. To paraphrase young Justin - "there's not a country in the world that wouldn't give in to short-term greed for long-term disaster."  Good Luck with that.