About the same population density as the US, also. Guptastan now, more than ever. A 100km x 100km area is all we need, and with cheap solar getting more available day-by-day, a “desalination state” seems like the hot tip – work on a dry coastline where currently there are few or no people. We’d need [...]
Read more →Every decision can be made by the person or group best qualified to make the decision, modulo the cost of acquiring context. Fluid access to expert opinion is a huge factor, from telemedicine to crop health to technical support – it’s expertise on tap, help on the hard bits, and “what do you make of [...]
Read more →“The untouchable has been touched by India’s growth. Dalits are coming out from hunger and humiliation,” said Chandra Bhan Prasad, a popular Dalit newspaper columnist and childhood friend of Ram’s. “Capitalism is beginning to break the caste system,” said Prasad, who is conducting the survey. … “To me, this is the greatest social change India [...]
Read more →http://www.celsias.com/article/manufactured-famine/ EU fishing the hell out of Africa, for example. Also references “Late Victorian Holocausts” which covers the democidal activities of the Brits. The Indian Holocausts seem to have had more in common with the Ukranian Famine than the Holocaust but you get the general idea. An era that history has politely forgotten, for the [...]
Read more →http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/september10/helicopter-091008.html Somebody please, please show these people Terminator.
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