Answer:
the environment
Explanation:
The reason why my main interest and concern is about the well being of the environment is because it affects pretty much everything else. Healthy environment provides for everything and everyone, for all the living organisms. The humans have enormous benefits because a healthy environment provides lot of health benefits, economic progress, and well balanced human-environment situation in which everyone can enjoy. A damaged environment is one of the worst things possible. The effects on the health are terrible, species get extinct or endangered, the pollution in enormous, erosive processes very strong, and leads to collapse of the ecosystems which will inevitably catch up with the humans as well.
India didn't pick sides between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Due to the rise of industrialism, the north was mostly comprised by factories. In addition, white men in the north were literate at a higher rate than men in the South. Men in the north tended to be businessmen, scientists, etc (i.e. professionals as opposed to plantation owners/farmers like in the south). The south had a higher rate of illiteracy than the north, and was deeply influenced by an economy that depended on slavery and agriculture to thrive.