practices you identify in your article. Geo : Captain Jack : 22 Jul 2011 8:36:51am So, what's the point? We should lower our standards to third world levels? The Chinese are climbing out of the third world and building scores of coal fired and nuclear power plants to power the industries to do it. AGW is just an unproven theory.Sure the climate changes gradually but man cannot change the weather.Especially by introducing new layers of bureauracy and counter productive taxes. Fish : Someone : 23 Jul 2011 3:15:32pm That's a very interesting article you have written. What you're saying is that aid from wealthy nations to poor nations is making those nations poorer. Development should be encouraged in developing nations not discouraged. If the people in shanty towns upgrade to an apartment that's great!. I am sick of the idea that I need to feel guilty for being wealthy and white. I feel proud of the fact that I have those attributes and can use them to create a better world for my fellow global citizens and children, just like any global citizen with any of their attributes can use them for the betterment of the world. How is having Africans pick up Sh*t to use heaters any different from say Paris using garbage to heat hot water? Or using sh*t from the sewage system in the US to produce electricity? Either way, it's still the same sh*t. More importantly, why should I pay for someone in a developing nation