This is a direct cut and paste from a blogger not unknown to this fair site:
If Western nations, with all their technical know-how and enormous financial resources chose to prioritise sustainable development over growth then it wouldn't take more than a decade to achieve, is given sufficient priority. The same technology could then be shared with the developing countries in return for the natural resources required to produce them (a good example is the rare earth metals). The extent to which development can be decoupled from economic growth is debatable. Ecological Economic literature tends towards "not very much". However, by allowing developing countries to actually develop Western nations can not only benefit from fewer economic migrants and asylum seekers but those countries will also move towards stable populations more quickly.
So I hope I've persuaded you that I haven't forgottn about social justice. I'm quite happy to admit that my theory is utterly unrealistic due to the considerable cultural obstacles that stand in the way of sustainability- the ongoing geopolitical shitstorm, religious fuckwittism and corporate sociopathy. This is why I get so uptight about electoral reform. Nothing will happen unless a country- any country- leads by example and constructs a sustainable utopia revealing neoliberalism and neoclassical economics to be the sociopathic ideologies they are. For a time I thought that country could be the UK. Sadly, I've come to realise that that's just not going to happen. My money's on Latin America now. Costa Rica's doing pretty well, I think.
Ho hum, I'm drifting now so I'll give it a rest.
"Drifting"? Yes, I'd say that "drifting" is the right word. Who wrote that, you ask? Perhaps a 5th former from a remedial education college? No, no, you are quite wrong, it is the very best example of, er, thinking and writing produced by a recently qualified Doctor of Philosophy from one of our so-called 'universities', you know, the ones you pay for out of your taxes. Have you guessed now? Yes, of course, it is one of 'Little Willy's finest pieces of prose displaying the keen analytical power of his political, economic and social thinking.
'Little Willy' is putting his money on Costa Rica - although I am not sure if he is actually talking about the World Cup!
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