This doesn't mean we should get away with it in the developed world.
Practically every home in the developed world has a computer.
In the developed world, water doesn't cost all that much money.
For one thing, every place in the developed world might look a lot more like Florida.
But it is a crisis of the old developed world.
In the developed world about a third of people who get the disease die from it.
This term is being used less, as terms like global North and developed world become more common.
Now it is people in the developed world who are being left behind.
But this is not just a matter of the developing and the developed world.
To that effect, we in the developed world must set a good example.