We do not grant people permission to cause harm on a national level just because there is a lack of social economic factors like education, health, economy, freedom, and mobility. It is acknowledge that those factors play a part in why people do harm, and providing social support reduces the overall rate of harm, but we still have laws that forbid harm.

I don't see any good argument why we should give explicit permission to do harm on a global level. We can and should acknowledge that a lack of education, healthcare, stable economies, freedom, and economic mobility are contributing factors for pollution.