Sustainability, an ingredient for growth.

It pains me when people take the environment for granted. We live in times when as humans that we consume more in energy, resources, food etc. than at any time in the history of mankind. Albeit the global population is growing exponentially

While natural resources are diminishing, we in the developing world need to take responsibility of both our resources and our environment. Slavery, colonialism and imperialism are ills perpetuated upon our peoples however developments and trends in the western developed world should not be an issue of; “them and not us.” We still suffer from the effects of capitalism, corruption, global corporate insensitivity and political duplicity.

The world is now a global village and the effects of events in one part of the world, politically economically and environmentally, tends to affect another part of the world. Pandemics occur due to the prevalence of air travel and marine pollution is crippling coastal areas the world over. In essence as a developing country the areas we need to develop in are areas of relevance today and not technologies that are being phased out. Why should we develop copper line based land telephones where mobile telephone and high-speed fibre optics is sweeping the world?

It is agreed that the bar to entry to the club of developed countries has been raised higher, irrespective, that is the standard we must achieve to be a member of developed flourishing participating country of the 21^st century.