Saturday, May 05, 2007

Quality of life is more important than global neighbors' economic growth height

The late Pope John Paul II seems to be well on the way to being beatified, a major step toward canonization, or, becoming a Saint in the Roman Catholic church. His influence on me is strong today on a concern he related publicly during his papacy: immoral social symptoms of over-exuberant economy. A May 4, 2007 TIME magazine article, "Global Warming Report: Convincing Asia", reports that China, India and Indonesia currently prefer the continued high rate of rapid growth in their respective economies (and the high carbon emission correlative to that) over a highly significant cooling of the global climate. May we remind them that the larger issue of peoples' quality of life around the globe is more at stake than national economic exuberance?

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