Why do all predominantly caucasian countries overwhelmingly have the highest living standard? ?

Question

All politics and racial issues aside one merely need look at a map to realize that this is the rule. 6% of the population in the affluent countries make up the farming community vs. 60% of the population in developing countries. Why are Caucasians demonized, to some extent, when they obviously hold the keys to global survival? If we did not use most of the energy would it presumably be used more effectively by anyone else or merely left in the ground?

Answer 1

sorry i don't know but you you could go to the dictionary and see if it is in there!

Answer 2

Countries that started  out ahead  in the industrial revolution stayed ahead because the   technology and knowledge  got  transferred  mostly to contiguous regions  or   by migration and the industrial revolution  began in England. Only since WWII has there been  enough interaction  for  industrialization to go global. There are many  explanation of why it happen in England and not  the middle  east of China which were  much more developed and wealthier  in a thousand AD but I  don't find  them convincing. The book  "Guns Germ and Steel" offers   an explanations of why  the Eurasian Continent was     where civilizations developed why the industrial revolution would happen in some country there and not elsewhere in the world.

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"Diamond highlights two major environmental advantages of Eurasia over other areas in which farming apparently developed independently. The various Eurasian inventors of farming, and especially those in "South West Asia" (roughly Mesopotamia and Turkey) had by far the best natural endowment of crops and of domesticable animals in the size range from goats or dogs upwards - the superiority in domesticable animals was the more extreme, as other areas had at most two and often none. Eurasia's other big advantage is that its mainly East-West axis provides a huge area with similar latitudes and therefore climates. As a result it was far easier for migrating Eurasian populations to use in their new homes the plants and animals to which they had become accustomed; by contrast the Americas' North-South axis forced migrating Native Americans to adopt new crops and, where available, animals because they found a wide variation in climates as they migrated from North to South.

edit; Since modern industrial economies are no longer  confined to countries which developed  the technology, your question  comes down to how much are we entitled to because of what our ancestors did or perhaps how much do we owe other peoples because our ancestors enslaved and exploited them   to become rich.

Answer 3

white people are the best?