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Fascinating. Perry spends the whole book depressing you with stories showing how globalization is playing havoc with the poor, powerless unhealthy and uneducated people of the world and then in the last chapter makes a case for how we need war, violence and chaos in order to lurch forward to the next level of prosperity, innovation and general well-being.
His writing is very much that of a newspaper correspondent and he makes a case for the value of his profession as the eyes and ears and feet on the ground to inform the rest of us what is really happening out there in the scary places we can’t all visit.
There is a wealth of information here on individual situations in Nepal, China, Darfur, Somalia and India so that anyone can learn something. I had met a Tibetan-Buddhist nun from Nepal the previous day in Phoenix and his chapters on Nepal filled in a lot of background that her poor English had not been able to communicate.
I loved his chapter on India and his even-handedness over the wealth divide there. I have rarely seen it spelled out so clearly about the rich elite and poor majority and put in to perspective so simply. The elite is so tiny but the whole citizenry so huge that the elite is still the size of a small European country’s entire population.
I highly recommend the book for its clear writing, information and interesting conclusions.
Falling off the Edge
I’m so glad I bought the Kindle. I just finished my first book. I travel a lot and the Kindle is making it easy to read on planes and airports. I can’t imagine traveling without it.
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