Asking a developing country to go green as we go on with our own destructive environmental practices is blantantly wrong, ethnocentric and arrogant. Instead, we need to address what our own industrially 'advanced' countries are doing, or not doing, to propogate environmentally and socially sustainable practices. Remember: the USA ranks as the largest polluter in the world. Of course, the concept of going 'green' is a noble and well-intentioned endeavor - one that ought to be encouraged and practiced globally. But, for many people, getting enough food for the day and trying to see a $20/mon...
More..Sophie Inthapanya
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