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This notion of "global apartheid" is silly and offensive. No one is holding down the Third World and preventing it from being developed - at least not Western governments. The unholy trinity of the Left, racists of color, and Islamist nazis have their own reasons to blame the freedom and prosperity of the West for the backwardedness of the developing world. And their solution is not to adopt freedom and free markets to get on the fast track to modernity. Their solution is to turn the planet into one giant Cuba/North Korea/Taliban Afghanistan run by government central planners in which political correctness reigns and in which goods and services are made available to the public at the whims of bureaucrats, if they are made available at all. This is the true meaning behind the current fashionable buzzword in Johannesburg, "sustainable development." It has nothing to do with protecting the environment and everything to do bring the West down to where the Third World is today. If Americans knew what really went on in Jo'burg, they would spurn much of the modern environmental agenda, which is simply warmed over Marxism.