not in the modern R&D driven economy. As an example, Silicon Valley is regularly footing the massive startup bill :)
>that can be dirty a decade or more while the tech and the solution become commodity.
and so lacking their own technology they would be naturally buying it from the "first countries" while the first countries will be reinvesting those money into development of even better tech thus ever increasing their lead.
Although I see it as a positive. The money spent to "buy" technology is essentially wasted money.
Is money spent to buy software also "wasted money"? How are you going to pay the engineers developing this technology?
I can live on a decent wage. I don't need to make millions of dollars a year.
Screw "creatives" and screw this madness of royalties and license fees. Of what you're doing is of value to someone, they will pay you upfront.
First country footing the massive startup bill will have an economy slowdown compared to other that can be dirty a decade or more while the tech and the solution become commodity.
Besides countries won't really change until it's in their economic interest. Taking from your example until the cost of fighting bush fires (and other climate change related stuff) is greater than the cost of implementing a national plan on the whole economy, things won't change. That's why the hop production crisis is a better predictor on government action than bushfires or heat strokes deaths.