The welfare of Planet Earth, as a whole, is more important than the welfare of any individual country. We need political institutions to solve global problems. Ecology Pollutants created anywhere on earth show up everywhere. We all live in one house. Despite vaccines that ensure child survival, the third world birth rates remain high.
Religious leaders demand still more fecundity.
Many political leaders ignore ecology because they are focussed on short-term economic indicators. It is now possible to carry an atomic bomb in a suitcase, or to bring the Internet to its knees from a PC in Bulgaria. A technological society is highly vulnerable to terrorism. Terrorists are brainwashed to perform their insane acts. The world deserves the right to interfere with such brainwashing.