01:685:100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Edward Said, Paradigm Shift, Asef Bayat
2 Nov 2016
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As soon as the ultimate in development has been attained, the industrial centres themselves have already progressed" to a yet more modern" stage of development (p418). Secondly, she points out, that the six percent of the world population who live in the usa annually consume 30 percent of all the fossil energy produced (p418). She says, then, obviously, it is impossible for the rest of the world"s population, of which about 80 percent live in the poor countries of the south, to consume energy on the same scale (p418). What the poor do not take into account is that this good life of the elite is created by their labor and resources exploited for the benefit of the elite. Maria mies says that not only the poor are trapped in the myth of catching-up but women in the developed world are entranced also. They work hard to catch up to have equal status with men.
