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Cooperation between English and Foreign Languages in the Area of Multilingual Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Werner Sollors
Werner Sollors*
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Harvard University
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There are approximately six billion people living in the world today, of whom roughly one billion are well off (living at or near Western standards) while three billion live on less than two dollars a day; two billion are in between, though even the most fortunate among them are at least fifty percent below the standards of the top one billion (Summers). The trend, unfortunately, is toward more wealth at the top, more poverty at the bottom, and the population is growing fastest where needs are greatest (estimates for population growth by 2050 range from about eight to nearly twelve billion). The United Nations Population Fund report from which these facts are taken furthermore points out that the

world's richest countries, with 20 per cent of global population, account for 86 per cent of total private consumption, whereas the poorest 20 per cent of the world's people account for just 1.3 per cent. A child born today in an industrialized country will add more to consumption and pollution over his or her lifetime than 30 to 50 children born in developing countries. The ecological “footprint” of the more affluent is far deeper than that of the poor and, in many cases, exceeds the regenerative capacity of the earth.

(“Chapter 1”)

One does not have to be a prophet to predict large global crises—military, political, migratory, environmental, health-related, concerning international law, and so forth—that will affect if not us, then surely our students' generation.

Type
Shaping Change
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PMLA , Volume 117 , Issue 5 , October 2002 , pp. 1287 - 1294
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2002

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