Jeffrey Sachs shed light on the fact that if the dominant governing bodies of the world would come together to help irradicate issues like Rapid climate change, the depletion of the world's natural resources,extreme poverty, and ignorance, in countries like Africa; we'd be better off as a whole. He talks about the link between no resources, and dispair coupled with, no hope drives the rates of global violence to never before seen heights, in places like Somalia. He also spoke about how (Through lack of Education) as well as due to the fact that many countries like somailia ,have had no governance in 20 years due to issues like, inclimate weather as well as, literally uninhabitable land. drives people to do things they normally wouldn't I must say that Jeffry Sach's is a true optomist. While outlining the problems with the governing bodies of the world and how we could fix them. He also said that he believes that JFK was his favorite President because he recogned that in order to be a pilar of hope to the world the US must first look at itself and it's flaws before standing in judgement of the Soviets and we must all realize that all share one planet. If the U.S. wouldn't spend so much money on war we'd have enough money for better schools,medicine, as well as a stronger workforce and healthcare which would leave the U.S. a healthier nation and we wouldn't lag so far behind countries like Denmark,and Sweden if the U.S took better care of it's citizens and paid less attention to it's ego we'd be healthier, better educated, and have better living conditions. Lastly he said and i agree socialism isn't necessarily what we want we just won't our tax dollars to do better by the citizens in terms of class gaps in housing, healthcare, access to education, nutrition and physical viability. The world will never be the same geographically, physically or politically and we have ourselves to both blame and thank at the same time.
On Thursday, May 14th, I attended Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs’ talk entitled “Our Generation’s Greatest Challenge: Peace through Sustainable Development.” The first thing Professor Sachs talked about was his definition of sustainable development. He explained it as reconciling economic needs and aspirations with physical reality. This aspect of life today is a huge reason that peace cannot be achieved in the world. Professor Sachs gave three main reasons for the lack of peace. The first is that people in this country are struggling to acquire basic things, such as water and food. There is extreme poverty all over the globe. The second is that the population is rising uncontrollably. In his book Common Wealth, he mentions that such a crowded world just puts more of a strain on the earth’s systems. This planet is full! The third reason is the environment. The challenges that come from this crisis is the another reason peace cannot be achieved. This talk was both interesting and insightful. Although I could only stay for the first forty minutes, I gained a new perspective on how to look at the task of achieving peace.
Jeffrey Sachs shed light on the fact that if the dominant governing bodies of the world would come together to help irradicate issues like Rapid climate change, the depletion of the world's natural resources,extreme poverty, and ignorance, in countries like Africa; we'd be better off as a whole. He talks about the link between no resources, and dispair coupled with, no hope drives the rates of global violence to never before seen heights, in places like Somalia. He also spoke about how (Through lack of Education) as well as due to the fact that many countries like somailia ,have had no governance in 20 years due to issues like, inclimate weather as well as, literally uninhabitable land. drives people to do things they normally wouldn't I must say that Jeffry Sach's is a true optomist. While outlining the problems with the governing bodies of the world and how we could fix them. He also said that he believes that JFK was his favorite President because he recogned that in order to be a pilar of hope to the world the US must first look at itself and it's flaws before standing in judgement of the Soviets and we must all realize that all share one planet. If the U.S. wouldn't spend so much money on war we'd have enough money for better schools,medicine, as well as a stronger workforce and healthcare which would leave the U.S. a healthier nation and we wouldn't lag so far behind countries like Denmark,and Sweden if the U.S took better care of it's citizens and paid less attention to it's ego we'd be healthier, better educated, and have better living conditions. Lastly he said and i agree socialism isn't necessarily what we want we just won't our tax dollars to do better by the citizens in terms of class gaps in housing, healthcare, access to education, nutrition and physical viability. The world will never be the same geographically, physically or politically and we have ourselves to both blame and thank at the same time.
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May 14, 2009
On Thursday, May 14th, I attended Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs’ talk entitled “Our Generation’s Greatest Challenge: Peace through Sustainable Development.”
ReplyDeleteThe first thing Professor Sachs talked about was his definition of sustainable development. He explained it as reconciling economic needs and aspirations with physical reality. This aspect of life today is a huge reason that peace cannot be achieved in the world. Professor Sachs gave three main reasons for the lack of peace. The first is that people in this country are struggling to acquire basic things, such as water and food. There is extreme poverty all over the globe. The second is that the population is rising uncontrollably. In his book Common Wealth, he mentions that such a crowded world just puts more of a strain on the earth’s systems. This planet is full! The third reason is the environment. The challenges that come from this crisis is the another reason peace cannot be achieved.
This talk was both interesting and insightful. Although I could only stay for the first forty minutes, I gained a new perspective on how to look at the task of achieving peace.
Malati Vadapalli
I've heard that Jeffry Sachs' talk was wonderful and insightful. Please post your comment here if you attended Sachs' talk.
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