Why are non-Western countries still behind on education...

Yo don't invest into education because you keep people in line that way.

>they've achieved a lot in the last few decades
But have they achieved basic sanitation?

They have been fucked to pieces by neoliberal trade/ international finnance and before that colonialism and its lasting effects
Ecological literacy is at an all time low, for the obvious raisin that meaningful interaction with the ecosystems that we depend on is at an all time low

>tfw live in one of only two green countries in the entire fucking american continent
fucking embarrassing

You can thank USA

What's an "obvious raisin"?

An allusion to the futurama episode where fry defeats the flying brain invaders by wrighting in a book, "and then the brains left for no raisin" Or something like that

So you encounter unironically illiterate people on a daily basis?

Those countries do not have a massive governmental or corporate propaganda push as western countries do. People need to be able to read advertisements if they want to buy something the corporations sell.

>Africa and the Middle East are incredibly fertile