Address any points they make?<br><br>For example: "ignoring the third of the world without electricity".<br><br>1) That's "third world", not "third of the world". Back in 2003, electricity was available to<br>
3/4 of the world, and it's gotten steadily better since. This is a problem that's being<br>solved, fast enough that in a few decades, most of those without electricity will probably<br>be those who choose to live that way.<br>
<br>2) What about life for the majority of the world that has electricity? Don't they deserve<br>something better too? Even if it was a third of the world without, that's two thirds of the<br>world with, who'd be left in the cold if everything went only to improving that one third.<br>
That's no privileged elite - not just the "rich and white" - that's MOST OF THE WORLD.<br>They'll be improving themselves anyway, so why not try to predict and shape how that's<br>going to go?<br>
<br>3) The developing world can catch up or even pass established players. It wasn't that long<br>ago that China was a backwater. Today? Superpower. Who can say for sure that South<br>Africa won't be a player 50 years from now, or that Brazil won't bring most of South<br>
America along for its ride?<br><br>Of course, all that requires having a way to address them. Quite a few of these who say<br>their views in a venue where they can get debunked, do get debunked. But take this<br>example. There is no comments section, no way on that page itself to point out these<br>
fallacies. There are links to other pages where one could perhaps comment - but those<br>are other pages, and thus don't exist to the point of view of someone who randomly comes<br>by, reads the comic, and picks up its point of view.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:44 AM, AlgaeNymph <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:algaenymph@gmail.com">algaenymph@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
In concise cartoon form is an argument I've had the misfortune to have dealt with:<br>
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<a href="http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=102" target="_blank">http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=102</a><br>
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This is also something we're going to have to deal with, so it's best if we figure out a way how. No, I don't think just ignoring it will work since people who seem Righteous & Angry get listened to by people, and by politics when enough people are listening. I'm not looking for solutions to winning over sanctimonious Luddites but rather the mainstream culture.<br>
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