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...Though one of the more environmentally pro-active places in Asia - Taipei has reduced air pollutants over 30% in the last decade - the island still has a long way to go. Taiwan's per capita carbon dioxide emissions are three times the global average, and they're growing faster than any country in the world. President Ma Ying-jeou set an ambitious goal to decrease emissions to half of 2000 levels by 2050, but critics say his goal of maintaining 2008 levels is a bit flimsy, and programs like bike sharing are more style than substance. "In Taiwan, the economy...
...trade scheme must reflect the reality that developing countries have contributed little to climate change yet stand to be hurt the most. Unjustifiably, many in developed countries claim they should be allowed to emit more per capita than developing countries because their economy has grown to rely on emissions. It is one thing to not punish developed countries for a history of irresponsibility on the basis that they were ignorant of the harmful effects, and it is another thing to reward harmful behavior. Instead, as many other have proposed, emission credits should be pegged to U.N. population size estimates...
...Overall Happiness: "Life satisfaction rose or remained constant in 23 countries and only declined in Portugal, Hungary, the United States, Canada and Japan. The rise in life satisfaction in Turkey is particularly striking. ... While Mexico shows the lowest income among OECD countries, at $10,000 per capita, Mexicans report being almost as satsified with life as OECD's highest income country Luxembourg, at $55,000. ... Korea now has the highest suicide rate among OECD countries (around 22 deaths per 100,000 individuals). Ireland shows a marked regular increase of suicide rates with a peak in 2000, followed by a small...
...Mexico's first swine-flu cases (and first death) are believed to have emerged in late March and early April, access to physicians and nurses is even more threadbare. The nation's public health budget is about 3% of GDP, again about half the OECD average; and its per capita health spending of $675 is a quarter of that average. Mexicans regularly complain about (and often try to avoid) overcrowded and understaffed public clinics and hospitals, where patients sometimes have to bring their own medicines and bandages if they want treatment. It's one reason partly why Mexicans tend...
...mere 69 percent of rural, public -high-school students attended schools offering Advanced Placement courses, compared to 93 percent of public-high-school students in cities and 96 percent in suburbs. Rural public schools historically have also had fewer instructional computers with Internet access per capita and lower-paid teachers (even after adjusting for the lower cost of living in rural areas). On the other hand, expenditures per student have tended to be higher, and student-teacher ratios lower, in rural areas compared to cities and suburbs. Like elsewhere in the United States, rural public education is failing its students...