You know the Japanese are breathing down our necks on this. They're moving very rapidly because they know that it is a fast-growing world market. Some of these other countries, particularly in the developing world, their pollution is much worse than anywhere else and their people want higher standards of living.

Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Some countries are equal in the amount of pollution they have and the conditions of the lives of the people that live there. "?
It's impossible to say