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...Thailand's political deadlock is often posited as a battle between urban and rural, rich and poor. Certainly elements of these divisions infect the body politic. But the strife is also the result of a clash between two sets of political élites that have failed to find common ground. Pitched against Abhisit, the scion of an old Thai-Chinese family with connections to the country's royalty, is Thaksin, who is everything the current PM is not: a brash, populist, new-money billionaire who was sentenced in absentia to two years in jail on a conflict-of-interest conviction...
...fundamental challenge the Kyoto Protocol has failed to overcome is the divide between rich and poor nations. At present, 60% of all carbon emissions come from rich industrial nations that house only 20% of the world's population but use most of the world's resources. Developing nations, home to 80% of the world's population, are responsible for just 40% of all emissions. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...This is immoral, they say, especially because the West had a couple centuries of growth unhindered by emission caps. Western capitals point out that growth will be irrelevant if global warming continues. During the Bush Administration, Washington also argued that there was no point to the U.S. and other rich nations reducing their emissions unless China and India agreed to limits. Developing nations contribute a minority of emissions now, but in a few years they will become the biggest emitters and their actions will decide the fate of our planet. (Read: "A Wind Shift Coming in the Global-Warming Debate...
...doing things right" instead of right-wing or left-wing. By eschewing the ideological polarization that has paralyzed Latin America for centuries, he's helped forge one of the more successful examples of how developing nations can expand their underachieving economies while finally narrowing their often epic gaps between rich and poor. It has nurtured top-flight industrial giants like regional jet-maker Embraer, and 52% of its people are now in the middle class. And it is taking tentative but ever surer steps at asserting itself on the diplomatic front in global as well as hemispheric affairs. (Read about...
...There's certainly a potential for one of these companies to become the most popular and dominate the field, and that's particularly true if their technology and business model envisions some kind of a multisite pass," says Rich Gordon, director of digital innovation at the Medill School of Journalism. (See the 10 biggest tech failures of the last decade...