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...that. Madhuri Pai Singapore Proliferating Primates Re "Way too much monkey business" [Nov. 13], on the overpopulation of rhesus macaques in Delhi: The problem reflects the sad state of Indian society today. Indians see only the immediate trouble and its quick fix. In the quest for a high per capita income, the society is moving forward in much the same way it handled the monkey issue - creating problems, analyzing those problems in retrospect, critiquing the possible solutions and finally learning to coexist with the problem. Then some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity: Let's bring in bigger monkeys to solve...
...Much Monkey Business" [Nov. 13], on the overpopulation of rhesus macaques in Delhi: The problem reflects the sad state of Indian society today. Indians see only the immediate trouble and its quick fix. In its quest for a high per capita income, the society is moving forward in much the same way it handled the monkey issue--creating problems and worse solutions. Some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity: Let's bring in bigger monkeys to solve the problem of the smaller ones. The entrepreneur's income adds to the GDP, and society learns to coexist with the bigger problem...
...market. Such success puts the city on a trajectory pulling further and further ahead of much of the rest of the country. Mexican states in the north are growing twice as fast as those in the south and already contribute three times as much GDP on a per capita basis...
...lagging a bit,” he said. “Maybe people didn’t know that you can mix certain things like aluminum and glass,” he said. “Working with the reps in the undergraduate houses, we have increased the per capita collection.” Jeremy P. Tchou ’08, a representative for Kirkland House’s Resource Efficiency Program (REP)—part of the Harvard’s Green Campus Initiative—noted that the University has also cut its trash production in recent...
...dioxide a year. That number includes how much they use personally in their home and for their transportation (about 16,000 pounds), as well as the emissions caused by the products they consume (about 24,000 pounds). That is far above the international average of about 4 tons per capita, which makes America the top five carbon dioxide polluter on the planet...