[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Yet their initial stages of development relied on practices that would not today be considered “environmental-friendly”,

Why did the West progress past these practices while you third-worlders are still stuck using medieval methods??

[Salgak]

Looks like at least ONE African has a serious clue and his head screwed on straight. . . but his voice is being drowned out by all the shakedown artists

[stuartcr]

National Guard Officers??

[GOP_1900AD]

This is priceless. Some of the most dedicated and driven entrepreneurs I have ever met were the farmers and rural merchants in the Newly Industrialising Countries I've been in.

In the film "Out Of Africa" the Redford character has the typical, utopian, holier-than-thou attitude regarding the locals. He expounds on his desire to see them remain illiterate and steeped solely in their verbal storytelling culture. The Streep character believes this is hogwash, and realises that in order to do well in the world, the locals must learn to deal with the world on modern terms. I'm glad that the latter won our over the former.

[RippleFire]

BUMP

[GeekDejure]

NGO? Hmmm. . . looks like it's the abbreviated "N" word !!! ;-))

[Salman]

This piece in right on the money, economically speaking, but he did leave out one of the nastier social aspects of "sustainable development".

The global governance crowd want to keep primitive people primitive as if they were animals in a nature preserve. With the exception of a few hunter-gatherers here and there, primitive just means extremely poor.

[USA21]

judges from the United States are helping U.N to make laws and tax on America