Moi:
The "benefits" of economic development were dramatically illustrated
in a (LINK TV?) television documentary about the homecoming journey
of several families from New Zealand to their native island home
(Tuvi?, Tuval?) to show their children their roots.
I found this in my Quotes folder:
"[T]he international community would require us to prove to them
that the climate change is adversely affecting us and what impacts
it might have on our economics and what steps can be taken by us
before they might consider to act. This is arrogance at its
worst.... We are where we are because of the excessive consumption
needs and greed of the developed and more powerful countries. They,
the developed countries, must accept their responsibility and take
the consequences of their actions on others more seriously."
-- Bikenibeu Paeniu, Prime Minister of the atoll nation of Tuvalu, 1998
Could the island in the documentary be Tuvalu? If so, I find the
reference to "excessive consumption" to be quite ironic...and strong
testimony to the power of money addiction.
Rob Cozens, Staff Conservator
Mendonoma Marine Life Conservancy
"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."
from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)
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