PROVOCATIVE THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

Picture this: fifty years from now, our planet experiences an oil crisis, a depletion of natural resources (and no, I did not just watch "An Inconvenient Truth"), causing all the industrialized nations of the world to crash into economic crisis, and all the infrastructure of the modern world to fall to pieces...no more cars, no more electricity, no more air conditioning, no more elevators, no more computers...
If this were ever to happen, who would be better off in the world? What group of people would have the tools for survival? And who do you think would be leading the world in terms of development, making proper use resources, respecting the environment?
It's well and good for the West to feel superior because of all it's accomplishments in modernization, but it forgets that it's supposed greatness is built upon the exploitation of others, and a finite supply of resources.
Just some food for thought....