Leaders from world's poorest nations unleash anger at UN summit

France24 ^ | March 5, 2023

[alloysteel]

Battling climate change is no way to combat poverty. Climate is your FRIEND, not an adversary, and should be treated as such. Taking advantage of the local climate may even be a way that leads to prosperity, but it is a necessity to adapt to that climate, and deal accordingly.

Your land is a desert? Fetch water to it, and make the desert bloom. The greatest source of water is the ocean, saline though it may be. The answer is simple, desalinate the sea water. All it takes is heat.

Heat which may be supplied by a very small nuclear reactor. The nuclear reactor is set up to run what is essentially an enormous still, boiling the sea water down into brine, and discharging the brine back to the ocean. The steam rising off this brine is sent to a condensing tower, and the water collected is pure enough for purposes of drinking, sanitation, and the irrigation of crops, WITHOUT the steady accumulation of saline in the soil which comes from using either rainfall/snow melt, or well water from an aquifer, as the irrigation water source.

Your land is a low-lying topography at near sea level? Adapt the architecture of buildings to stand against the effects of foundations submerged, and attached to the bedrock that is down there somewhere, and again develop as a place that can take advantage of the topography, as a harbor or shipping port for merchants and light manufacturing. This will require abundant electrical and hydrocarbon fuel supplies, and the use of again an array of very small nuclear nuclear reactors, the designs of which already exist and even in operation on a commercial basis.

Building this kind of infrastructure is the means by which poverty of nations shall be erased, and a new age of plenty rises in the world. Sure, it involves using the principles of capitalism, abandonment of various socialist schemes (none of which has ever worked as proposed), and a general upgrading of the skill levels of the general population by education while paying a decent wage as a reward for exercising a respectable work ethic.

Victims and beggars need not apply.

[Jhadur]

Anger is their only export.

[Abathar]

Your mother and my grandmother would get alone very well I believe.

When her sister, my great aunt was being evicted they asked if there was any way she and grandpa could help them keep the place. Grandma said sorry, can’t do it. Their lifestyle, their laziness, it was the first time I can remember fully understanding what it meant when she told my mom “They made their bed, they can lie in it.”

Grandma and my aunt lived through the depression, one understood the lessons, the other never could.

[Twotone]

Absolutely. Change the gov’t to free the people, change the culture so people are expected to be productive & moral.

I’m reading The Creature from Jekyll Island. The last thing these poor countries need is to receive grants & loans from anyone.

[Cronos]

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose country of 170 million is scheduled to graduate out of LDC status

Bangladesh is a good example of what to DO to get out of "Least Developed Country" status - vs Pakistan.

Bangladesh has focused on making it easy to do business in the country and has cracked down on Islamic funadmentalism

Yes, there are poor people earning $1 a day working in clothing factories in Bangladesh - but the alternative is $0 per day. And these ladies are sending their kid (not kids) to school so the next generation is better

And note "kid" - the Bangladeshis have halved their # of children per woman to about 2, their child poverty levels have gone down heavily while their literacy levels have risen

Pakistan did the opposite and even though it was in a better position in 1971, today Bangladesh is surging ahead and is an example for other countries to follow

[Cronos]

Map of Least Developed Countries

[Cronos]

dforest Life was much better when people and countries minded their own business.

When has that ever happened in the past 6000 years of history?

hint - never

[HamiltonJay]

Sorry, but when you have global corporations wholesale violating the law and killing your citizens and destroying your country for natural resources, it’s a bit more than “you can’t be productive” and are lazy nonsense.

The US has squandered its global leadership position, particularly in the realm of leveraging trade to improve things elsewhere.

Letting CHINA into the WTO, was a greed move that sold the entire planet down the river so a few fat cats could get even fatter.

[dforest]

Never to the extent it is now. Every time this country involves itself in other nations, trouble follows for this country and the countries we try to impose ourselves in.

Europe was better when it was not EU.

[1Old Pro]

Many made pointed calls for the developed powers to come good with billions of dollars of promised aid to help them escape poverty and battle climate change.

LOL

[wjcsux]

I’m certain that every one of these craphole countries is run by corrupt leaders that have looted their own treasuries.

[dearolddad]

It is always somebody else’s fault that you can’t be productive.

Perhaps if they would spend as much time being productive instead of killing each other things just might improve.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The resource-rich African countries are being looted because their greedy, corrupt leaders allow it.

[Vigilanteman]

Agree with you about the stupidity of letting China in the WTO.

But as far as some of the other screamers, you might want to take a look at post #25. Very illuminating!

[Vigilanteman]

Excellent data! See my post #34.

[dfwgator]

For God’s Sake, Please Stop The Aid

https://www.laits.utexas.edu/africa/ads/1016.html

[HamiltonJay]

Out of 35 you find 1 example you think is representative? You need to look a bit more into the data before you push a false narrative.

You think these countries and their people and resources are treated fairly you are wearing a few pairs of rose colored glasses.

[Cronos]

“Never to the extent it is now. “

What are you talking about?

20th century started off with Western Europe, Russia and Japan interfering in other countries, the USA in central America and the Philippines and south American countries fighting each other.

It only had more interfering after that.

The USA has involved itself in other countries since the 18th century.

As has Russia, the UK, post Meiji Japan, post Nehru India etc etc