In the East, many people can't even get clean drinking water, food, or health care. I don't make this stuff up. All you have to do is to use those critical thinking skills which you've been learning at this university, and review your History 152 textbook. The fact of the matter is that we're so prosperous in the West because of the great European colonial legacy. In fact, this colonialism continues into the present as the European ancestry peoples of the world and their allies begin to plan to explore and exploit the resources of the Solar System.
Space is indeed the final frontier.
There's even research being done in the study of global warming technology so we can alter atmospheric conditions on Mars so that mankind can live there. Capitalism doesn't have anything to do with what I'm writing about. Ka Leo welcomes your questions and comments. Search Ka Leo O Hawai'i is the daily campus newspaper of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa . All rights reserved.