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Politics, News & Issues > Environment (Other) Is it fair to ask underdeveloped countries to "go green" when many advanced industrial countries owe their success to destructive environmental practices?

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Many years ago in a restaurant in Kathmandu, a Nepalese man (after first suggesting that I was a spy for the CIA) asked me why the US, a great, powerful, and most of all wealthy nation, would not build a large power plant and distribute electricity to the mountain villages all over Nepal. I thought about Everest; about Annapurna rising white against the sky where only clouds rightfully belonged. I thought about the tiny mountain villages located atop mountain ridges for defense and to conserve the more arable bottom lands for farming. There aren't even roads to these villages, only narrow ...

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