In terms of bringing our worlds closer together the author wrote, The ethnocentric fallacy that everyone wants our way of life just because they desire our consumer goods has led to the untenable conclusion that goods like the internet, cell phones, and satellite TV are capable of transforming fundamental values and ideas.
An atmospheric temperature inversion, also known as stable conditions, may occur due to ground surface radiation thermal loss to the night sky on clear nights. The air near the ground is then cooler and cannot rise into the warmer air above. Hence the term stable.
The inversion acts as a cap on the lower cooler layer trapping that air beneath it. On most days the sun will heat the lower layer to the temperature of the inversion and the two different layers mix and the inversion is no longer there. But we see many days in Colorado where the cap is never mixed out or broken.