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We Need To Defend The Interests Of Those Whom We've Never Met And Never Will.

Business Often Does A Good Job Supporting Communities: The Arts, Universities, And Scientific Enterprises... But That Philosophy Has Rarely Reached Poor Countries. Even Businesses That Are Enlightened In Their Home Bases See Africa, Latin America, And Parts Of Asia As Places To Exploit Natural Resources Or Use Cheap Labor.

In Asia, A Lot Of Successful Economies That Had Been Living On Their Own Saving, Decided To Open Up Their Financial Markets To International Capital In The Early 1990s. So Here Were Countries Doing Quite Well, But They Decided To Borrow A Bit More And Do Even Better.

In My View, There Is An Urgent Need To Communicate With The Public And Help To Explain Where There Is Consensus, And Where Are There Doubts About The Issues Of Sustainable Development.

Obama Is Already Setting A New Historic Course By Reorienting The Economy From Private Consumption To Public Investments... Rightwing Pundits Bemoan The Evident Intention Of Obama And Team To 'tell Us What Kind Of Car To Drive'. Yet That Is Exactly What They Intend To Do...and Rightly So. Free-market Ideology Is An Anachronism In An Era Of Climate Change.