How can you claim that further “development” of any sort is good for the planet, when development has caused many of the environmental hazards the planet faces today?
We believe that a certain level of economic development is necessary in order to provide environmental justice which is the prerequisite for environmental sanity. As long as we live in a world in which millions of people die each year of malnutrition or diseases that could have been cured by fairer distribution of the world’s health resources, it is unrealistic to believe that people in the underdeveloped world will preserve the world’s resources and environment rather than use them in accord with their immediate needs (like cutting down the Amazon forests so that they can plant grass to sustain cattle that will be bought by middle class city dwellers at prices that will make it possible for the poor to buy enough food to not starve to death) unless the rest of us find them other ways to provide enough food and sustenance for their families. So a fairer distribution of the world’s resources and material well being is necessary in order to begin to involve everyone in the highest priori
