Backward Nations

Despite the example set by Britain, it appears there are parts of the world which still have not learned the lessons of modernity. One such is Tanzania, where the government has appropriated public money that could be spent on bankers and strangely-shaped buildings, and is throwing it at an initiative to condemn the population to solar energy. Of course, Tanzania has rather an abundance of sunshine, which presumably helped to suggest this rather simple-minded solution to the climate and energy crises. It is unfortunate that we on the mainland have no sunlight at all, or even any corresponding advantage in wind or waves, and thus have to go cap in hand to China and beg for initiation into the mysteries of sustainable uranium.