"In the past, Ladakhi children learned the skills needed to survive, even to prosper, in their difficult environment: they learned to grow food, tend for animals, build houses from local materials. But in the new Westernized schools, children were instead provided with skills appropriate for a fossil fuel-based, urban life within a globalized economy – a way of life in which almost every need is imported."
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Globalization and Extremism - Join the Dots, Helena Norberg-Hodge, New Internationalist, (4 February 2020)
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