Probably not. But I would think that the additional three billion people who get to live lives that are not impovershed very much are

I care less about the impoverished masses than the accelerating extinction of species.

"....you can swim safely in the Hudson ..."

That's not even a successful cherrypicked example. The 'safe to swim' caliber of self-congratulatory schtick government are fond of spreading are lipstick on a pig, sir.

How were you hoodwinked?

<<"The Hudson River remains the largest Superfund site in the country, largely due to General Electric dumping an estimated 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into the Hudson River between 1947 and 1977.

Though the devastating impacts on the river remain and have possibly increased based on recent studies, public awareness about the severity of the damage has waned. Scientific studies are showing that cleanup efforts are not successful to the degree projected, and the likely spread of PCBs down the Hudson River has only increased over time.

GE's PCBs are still found at dangerous levels in sediment, water and wildlife throughout the Hudson River ecosystem as far south as the New York Harbor. These PCBs are also found in people."

The landmark 2009-2015 dredging project removed PCBs from 'hotspots' in a 40-mile stretch of the Upper River above Troy, but nothing further has been done to address contamination in the Lower River. Fish throughout the Superfund site remain hazardous to eat, and the dredging has had little to no effect on PCB levels in fish below the Troy dam.>>

riverkeeper.org - Stop polluters

rich western developed economies tend to be (overall) more protective in terms of environmental regulations than poor

When Obama said he'd level the playing field, I'd hoped he'd ban importing products that were not manufactured according to US environmental standards. No such luck. The US shifted pollution to less restrictive nations just as those nations are exporting their droughts to the USA. Pollution sent into the air and water on behalf of our consumerist population IS our pollution.