Development and apocalypse

Populations in developing countries are expected to rapidly increase in the next century in a world in which 20% of the richest people now have an income 150 times greater than that 20% segment representing the poorest. Future positive adjustments to alleviate this unbalanced situation with its detrimental impacts on the overall socio-economic and environmental health of the globe can be made if, in addition to profiting from financial and technological assistance from industrialized countries, developing countries individually create their own technically and socially valid solutions to meet their specific problems regarding population dynamics, energy supplies, economic development and the environment; and greater progress can be made in solving global problems such as energy shortages and air pollution if mass media turns away from its unjustified catastrophic approach pandering to the public's dubious tastes in news material