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I thought globalization was lifting gazillions out of poverty in China and India!!!

This cannot be!

All that environmental destruction for this?

I thought PetroChina was the first Trillion dollar company by market capitalization! Doesn't a lifting tide in the China Sea lift all junks?

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 10:46:29 AM EST
As has been pointed out before, a rising tide is less than helpful if the bottom of your boat has a gaping hole in it.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 10:47:43 AM EST
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A hundred million here, and a hundred million there, and soon you're taking about real people!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Nov 15th, 2007 at 12:01:10 PM EST
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I would trus the Un on data. Youc an ahrdly beleive any GDP data.
the number of people in poverty (good clotehs...) it has been reduced indeed, first with the expansion ina griculture soem decades ago.. and now thanks to the income fromt he big cities which trickles-down through family money to some provinces (soemthing like Morocco adn Spain).

Meanwhile improvement on sanitation in rural areas (something which can not be obtained via family income nor big-city growth but only through equally distributed GDP growth plus government investment  plus rural policies) has been nonexistent....

So yes.. all that carbon to feed a little bit more people but lettign them die equally from lack of sanitary water.... adn amke soem upperclasses , uber rich classes and some kind of middle class in the big cities.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Sat Nov 17th, 2007 at 05:49:47 PM EST
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