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Shiva's many detractors call her naive, pointing out that chemical fertilizers, pesticides and genetic engineering rescued India from its eternal cycles of famine and huge debts from importing food. She responds that high-tech agriculture is a short-term solution that will ultimately destroy the land...
...guess what? Wind is becoming more than a quixotic sideshow. It's now the world's fastest growing power source--a high-tech challenge to the coal mines, oil rigs, nuclear reactors and hydroelectric dams that seem, well, so 20th century. Experts say wind could provide up to 12% of the earth's electricity within two decades. Wind farms in Texas, Oregon, Kansas and elsewhere helped lift U.S. wind-energy output 66% last year, and an additional $3 billion in American projects are in the works. "Wind is competitive," wrote Mark Moody-Stewart, the former chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell...
...just ride in cars--a top U.S. inventor has transformed the lowly scooter into what he calls a high-tech "human transporter," while the humble bicycle is poised to incorporate a few tricks...
...conservation purity is the only acceptable option, the biggest polluters will have no incentive to clean up their acts. Says Dwight Evans, executive vice president of Southern Co., a major U.S. energy producer: "If tomorrow we announced we were shutting down 25% of our plants to put in new, high-tech scrubbing devices, the headline would be, WHY NOT THE OTHER 75%? We don't get credit for what we've done, or for what we're going...
...countries like Cambodia, high-tech gizmos stand little chance against a scourge that has become virtually an epidemic. Best estimates put the number of prostitutes in Cambodia at about 30,000, and as many as one-third of these are thought to be under 18 years old?many of them trafficked into the country illegally from neighboring Vietnam. These child prostitutes are highly profitable bait for well-heeled visitors. More than 65% of all tourists to Cambodia are men, and one-fifth of them are there for the sex industry, according to a survey of travel agents by World Vision...