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While Lapp said that it was “premature” to talk about concrete recommendations the Work Team could consider, she mentioned that the University might consider “co-developing?? the Science Complex with other institutions...
...India, over 400 million people still live in poverty, and energy has yet to reach wide swaths of the rural land. Indians argue that no one told the United States or England to use expensive, untested modes of energy when Western countries were in their “developing?? states centuries ago. Emissions limits could stunt the growth of these nations. However, countries such as India and Bangladesh also have the most to lose from the effects of climate change. The developing world will face the overwhelming brunt of global warming’s repercussions, bearing the burden...
...backwards” attitude sometimes projected toward the developing world, one that has plagued American foreign policy for over a century, has become obsolete. In the end, subjective standards underline the semantic distinction between developed and developing??which suggests a dominance of the former’s culture, as well as its economic system and political activities. It is this complex that likely invites anti-American hostility from abroad. But so as long as we acknowledge our own faults, failures, and weaknesses, and maintain respect for others’ political and cultural sovereignties, countries will see no need...
...happiness or even contentedness. Most Americans are overweight, which is symbolic of the fact that although we make up five percent of the world’s population, we consume 30 percent of its resources. It’s simply not possible or prudent for the “developing?? world to copy the American way of life—the world simply doesn’t have enough gasoline, plastic wrap, or Prozac...
...living is much lower. Who is better educated: the illiterate African who can recite epic poetry and oral history for days without pause, or the literate American who never reads anything but comics and the McDonald’s menu? Residents of many so-called “developing?? nations such as Nigeria consistently score higher on polls of happiness, contentedness, and optimism than citizens of the U.S., Canada, and even the Scandanavian socialist wonderlands...