[afro-nets] Eliminating world poverty: making governance work for the poor (42)

["Jeff Buderer" <jeff@onevillage.biz>]

Eliminating world poverty: making governance work for the poor (42)
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Isaac, Robert, George, All,

What I see is that from all this conversation is an opportunity to come together and find a comprehensive solution to the challenge this group is designed to address and to expand beyond that to develop a sustainable health care development model for the world.

I think it is clear to many of us that America is a paradox offering some interesting ideas but increasingly veering towards devolution rather evolution. Much the same applied for the rest of the West and its bankrupt and corrupt, excessively money driven social system. A continued effort to export this very flawed development model to developing countries will lead to an unprecedented global crisis. Through neocolonialism many countries have been pressured and intimidated into adhering to top-down Western oriented development models that may not reflect their best interests or needs.

In my view the best solution is to help developing countries find a third way between socialism and capitalism and modernization and their indigenous cultural roots. The good news is that increasingly innovative sustainable development models in developing countries are becoming models for affluent regions of the world such as Gaviotas in Columbia, Sarovadaya in Sri Lanka, Auroville in India and Eco Yoff in Senegal, etc. Curtiba Brazil in 30 years has built one of the world's most advanced sustainable development programs and the city has a quality of life that rivals many more affluent regions demonstrating that you can really do more with less.

Its possible that it will be easier for non-affluent regions to become sustainable ecologically, economically and socially, than for countries in the west that are already heavily invested in extremely wasteful and unhealthy ways of living that are detrimental to the planet and to humanity itself. So in the end development may actually come full circle with many of the most regions of the developing world eventually offering help on assisting rich countries to become more sustainable.

Our success in this endeavor of promoting truly sustainable development is very important because the root of humanity's health problems is primarily its own dysfunctional socioeconomic structures rather than nature or humanity's gene pool.

Jeff

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Jeff Buderer
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