International Editorial: Not So Great Expectations

Is sharing immense wealth with Africa an exercise in futility? Are the topics of new energy sources and decreasing world pollution more important and solvable?

From today's Los Angeles Times:

"Thursday's message in the editorial pages of Madrid's centrist El Mundo newspaper and the leftist Mexican La Jornada is one of profound skepticism that the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, will bring about even a modest solution to the problems of poverty in Africa or to the challenges of global warming... In Buenos Aires, Clarin's editorial doesn't comment on poverty in Africa but brings the issue closer to home by pointing out that 43% of the people in Latin America are so poor that they are unable to take advantage of the basic political and social rights of citizenship, and that this now threatens the region's democratic stability... Regarding global warming, both the Spanish and Mexican newspapers blame the U.S. and President Bush for refusing to even discuss ideas on how to deal with energy consumption and environmental pollution."