"The thing that stands in the way of a global agreement is the incredible inequity and the gulf between rich and poor which makes the future look very different, depending on where you live.

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Together these Western countries can do much more to shape the global future than is commonly understood.

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Louis and maybe Buffalo might have been mentioned as places where the global future would be shaped.

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The global future of nuclear as a power source was also called into question after the disaster which occurred in March 2011 when a Japanese earthquake and tsunami rocked the reactors at Fukushima, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.

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