Its not, but you know the way things can be taken out of context in an arguement, best to cover your bases. If someone wanted they could counter argue and say "Why get rid of africa, why not the UK, we consume more, is it because theyre black?" just for the sake of it. My dad would probably agree with it just because he doesnt like Africa (I worry that hed vote BNP).
The breakthroughs you read about life-saving things and increased longevity freak me the hell out. Can you imagine what would happen if everyone lived to 80-90, including the people in 3rd world countries? Within 100 years the planet would be like an organism with a terminal bacterial infection in the final stages, with us as the bacteria.
One thing is you can never touch certain subjects or mention things as you get called Racist instantly, so you have to avoid them even if it was true.
India for example, The way they treat their surroundings is not very good, many places stink to high heaven and things are very polluted, litter and sh*t on the streets etc. A lot of it is down to the attitude. When I saw in just one day a few people dropping their draws and taking a dump right where the felt the need - made me heave. To a point Egg is right in the sense certain places wiped clean would not be a bad thing. China being the biggest country causing harm to the earth for example, who also sees fit to prevent any form of unified consensus to help protect the earth from polution because it will make them look worse could do with a kick up the backside from mother nature.
So in a way I can see what Egg is getting at, but there is also a downside, a lot of these 3rd world countries contain or produce a lot of important and essential things to 1st world countries, so if they go under 1st world countries will suffer.
The world and ALL the countries live in an ecosystem from nature to economic. And we are at a point where we need each other, like it or not. Ice Age hits and any part of the world is not set for it we will all feel the ramifications of them being screwed.
I am tired and hot and it is 2am so I am quite cranky at the moment, sorry.