Brett Coster wrote:
>
>> Pretty obvious to me that the rest of the world has been impoverished by
>> corrupt governments, and is not nearly using their fair share of energy.
>
>Please say there was a smiley missing because I think we ALL live in
>countries that have democratic governments - one sign being the free and
>easy accesss we have to forums like BRIN-L - and to paraphrase the Brin
>hisself, democratic governments are far less likely to suffer endemic
>corruption.
>
But not all of us live in countries that have *always* been democratic -
so JDG's statement is valid for some of us.
Alberto Monteiro
