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To: Eva who wrote (71455)	3/3/2011 4:30:35 PM
From: Bert	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217739

China has a large agriculturally based population, yet they have managed to assimilate millions into the growth story. I have traveled to Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Burundi (many years ago), and I can see that improved economic conditions will benefit many, many of the population I encountered. It will start in the cities, but some sort of trickle down will occur....Of course all of this will come at a price, as it does everywhere extraction and subsequent economic growth takes place. Even the US was ag based until the industrial revolution, and the advent of cheap energy.....Same as it ever was.

To: Eva who wrote (71455)	3/3/2011 5:23:55 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217739

African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power KIPTUSURI, Kenya — For Sara Ruto, the desperate yearning for electricity began last year with the purchase of her first cellphone, a lifeline for receiving small money transfers, contacting relatives in the city or checking chicken prices at the nearest market. Charging the phone was no simple matter in this farming village far from Kenya’s electric grid. Every week, Ms. Ruto walked two miles to hire a motorcycle taxi for the three-hour ride to Mogotio, the nearest town with electricity. There, she dropped off her cellphone at a store that recharges phones for 30 cents. Yet the service was in such demand that she had to leave it behind for three full days before returning. That wearying routine ended in February when the family sold some animals to buy a small Chinese-made solar power system for about $80. Now balanced precariously atop their tin roof, a lone solar panel provides enough electricity to charge the phone and run four bright overhead lights with switches. “My main motivation was the phone, but this has changed so many other things,” Ms. Ruto said on a recent evening as she relaxed on a bench in the mud-walled shack she shares with her husband and six children... nytimes.com