Economic Development over Environmental Protection -

Another developing nation, Brazil's struggle to keep the growth initiatives going while balancing the impact on Amazon Rain Forests.

Top 10 needs of Humanity over next 50 years

Found something interesting on CNBC's Mad Money show with Jim Cramer, who by the way does lot of non-sense with his booh yah theatrics. But what caught my eye was that he was using today a theme of "Top 10 needs of Humanity for the next 50 years" to identify stocks/sectors that will do well for the future by creating new technology products/services...which led me to do some more digging to find the source from where this list came from.

"Top 10 needs of Humanity" for next 50 years

1. Energy
2. Food
3. Water
4. Environment
5. Poverty
6. Terrorism/War
7. Disease
8. Education
9. Democracy
10. Population

This was originally published by Dr. Richard.E.Smalley, Rice University at MIT Enterprise Forum. If you have time, you should take time to read this excellent presentation to understand the dynamics of energy crisis (will we ever get back to $2 gas ?), and in general the longterm implication of the current world growth.

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