though there are international laws prohibiting such, it is done covertly.

So I've recently discovered. Waste going there under the guise of "second hand goods." This is globalisation. Dump responsibility somewhere else.

All animals are narcissistic and we are just being more so if we try to deny we are any better. It's a basic, survival instinct. We don't do anything if we can't gain something from it, even of its just a feeling of having done something nice.

it's almost impossible to have different sects working in coherence to solve issues when one or more sects are benefiting from the ruins cost by the problem.

The first line of that is probably true even without the second line. Communities, or sects, work because everyone within them has the same values. However, different sects can often have opposing values, which makes it hard for them to work together. Hope that makes sense.

Thank you for a thought provoking response.