Can We Have Success?
Certainly ... but only if ...
Two things seem to be important:
- that good people become informed and become active; and,
- that a lot more is done to constrain bad ethics and remove gross inequity.
These matters need to be addressed by everyone to the greatest extent possible.
What's in it for me?
The poverty and destitution of the “south” is going to have disastrous
consequences for the “north” ... sooner or later. The “north” cannot maintain
its wonderfully material and profligate standard of living unless it has access to
energy supplies and raw materials that are only to be found in abundance and
at low cost in the “south” ... and there are enough intelligent poor to
understand that their poverty ought to be substantially alleviated by the
exploitation of the “south's” resources.
Global security is going to be better or worse depending on the success of the
relief and development sector, much more than it will depend on the
unilateral military power of the “north”. Military power is valuable as a
deterrent, but much less valuable operationally ... and in a development
context usually a source of extreme value destruction.
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