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...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...
...These facts are not in dispute; much else is. Poorer nations such as China and India argue that a cap on emissions, and therefore energy use, will hurt economic growth and their ability to eradicate poverty. 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...
...trend does have detractors. "Sponsored Tweets is controversial," acknowledges Robin Dance, a part-time fundraiser and blogger from Chattanooga, Tenn., who has amassed a 2,800-plus-strong Twitter following and has also tweeted for Kmart. "I've had good friends and fellow bloggers say they have no use for Sponsored Tweets and will unfollow me if I use it. They say I'm selling out, that it's Twitter blasphemy...
...offshoring of my prior job: a well-paying, 24-year IT career with AT&T and IBM. Had that not happened, I most likely would have retired in 2008, after 30 years. Instead, I have held temporary jobs and have been underemployed in "permanent" jobs that use my varied skills in accounting, paralegal services and IT. During my stints of underemployment, I have probably taken a job away from someone already in that line of work, as when I worked at a customer-service job. This makes it harder for people like Roshonda Crenshaw, who was quoted in your article...
...author of the Beloit College Mindset List, I was happy to see Nancy Gibbs use it as a topic for her Essay [Sept. 21]. Even more welcome is that she infers from the list what my co-author and I do: that Arthur C. Clarke was right about the perils of predicting that any future technology is impossible. Such bold statements are likely to be wrong...