tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:217433More Words, Deeper Holejames_davis_nicolljames_davis_nicoll2012-09-28T15:42:29Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:217433:3879397Interesting if true: Are even more people being subjected to culturally inappropriate prosperity?2012-09-28T15:42:29Z2012-09-28T15:42:29Zpublic6This is old but interesting. From the Brookings Institute.<br /><br /><i><blockquote><br /><a href="http://globalconnections.hsbc.com/united-kingdom/en/news-insight/the-world-suddenly-got-better-but-no-one-noticed">“Whereas it took 25 years </a>to reduce poverty by half a billion people up to 2005, the same feat was likely achieved in the six years between then and now. Never before have so many people been lifted out of poverty over such a brief period of time,” the authors wrote in the Yale Global Online Magazine.</blockquote></i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2011/01/global-poverty-chandy">Poverty in Numbers: The Changing State of Global Poverty from 2005 to 2015 </a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=james_davis_nicoll&ditemid=3879397" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-02:217433:3095335The Deadly Threat of Solar Power, Revisited2011-06-17T13:43:17Z2011-06-17T13:43:17Zpublic3<a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2011/06/16/reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-2/">Has humanity taken the first steps towards a Nicoll-Dyson laser and a Galactic Reign of Terror? </a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=james_davis_nicoll&ditemid=3095335" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments