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The Lie Of Economic Development
The much appraised living standards of the west are not to be envied as they are created at the cost, murder and sufferring of millions of humans and the inevitable destruction of all natural live on earth.
Thats why the promise of economic development is a lie, a myth. It is based on the philosophy that the wealth and living standards of Europeans and Americans are more important than the welbeing and survival of any other life form on earth.
![Click on image to see full-sized version 1](../cache/imagecache/local/attachments/jun2009/460_0___30_0_0_0_0_0_whita_man__black_child.jpg) 1 When I was young a teacher told me that the soil under the Amazon jungle is by and large infertile as all nutrients are actually stored in the trees. If you cut one tree, he said, and export it, you export the nutrients of the soil to never be returned. Therefore your creating a dessert. To cut the tree's of the Amazon Jungle is unsustainable and because nature works in cycles interference will always have repercussions. The Inhabitants of the Amazon jungle have for centuries cut and used its trees and plants for food and shelter but have always allowed nature to reclaim what they took. They NEVER exported its products for MONEY as exporting the tree and the nutrients breaks the cycle. Before the whites came to African countries like Kenya she was also covered with lush Jungle. But the white forced our forefathers to cut the trees without allowing Nature to reclaim what they took. Institutions created and dominated by whites like the WTO and the World Bank have for years pressured our governments to use 'natural resources such as tree's, gold, aluminum for so called economic development. They either pressured or bribed local politicians for concessions to harvest and mine our natural resources and as they were sold as raw materials to the West for little money where they were transformed into goods to be sold to us for allot of money. As countries like China and Indonesia adapted the same model of development the Chinese and Indonesians are doing the same and are coming now to the Amazon Jungle to cut trees. And today our governments are still cutting and selling trees in the name of development. And so they are creating our own future desserts... And for what? For money they say we need for development.Yes Money!!! Money that the white man prints, values and devalues at will!!
Ignorant of the fact that the colored people that live in the Jungle have little or no say in the structures that regulate the world financial system that prints this money we sell our natural environment for this money. Once we have this money these same whites that promised us we will be able develop and buy food from them with that money, devalue the money they paid us and we end up having nothing to feed our children...Same time we have turned our natural environment in a desert so she doesnt feed us either. Marcus Garvey once said 'Look to Africa'!! And I looked..but only to see how many black children are starving to death for all the wood, oil, gold and diamonds Africans sold to white devils in the name of development. And since when does a white devil give a shit about dying nigger babies?? (pardon me).
I firmly believe that whites (and others) but especially whites and their models of economic development depend on the mining and harvesting of humans and elements in the natural environment to sustain their ridiculous lifestyles here in Europe and there in the USA. But even with the threat of climate change today they continue to promise majority world governments that if we do the same and base our economies like them, on the exploitation of humans and nature, we will become as wealthy as them. What they don't tell us, is that to become as rich as them, we will also have to enslave another race like they enslaved us; we will also have to burn carbon and pollute the environment like they do. What begs the question: Who are we going to enslave? Where are we going to pollute? And what civilizations are we going to slaughter to extinction?
Indeed economic wealth does not come falling out of the sky like manna. It is created through the application of a particular model of development. A model that is based on mining human lives (human resources) in slavery to produce goods to be sold and consumed in a market- (not moral-) led system. When the white devils were forced to acknowledge that Human slavery was really unethical and immoral they realized that the model of development which sustained their new consumption patterns was exploitative and unsustainable. However they did not address the MORAL problem of exploitation. Instead of addressing the moral question they sought and ENGINEERING solution for the void human slaves left and called it the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. They replaced the energy and craftsmanship of African slaves with Machines that no longer needed human lives to fuel them, but now depended on the mining and harvesting of CARBON from the natural world. These machines would now allow them to continue their unsustainable levels of consumption and to continue benefiting from the economic wealth associated with it.
However replacing slave labor with carbon (a finite resource) in an industrial process that constantly pollutes the natural environment has like slavery, ALSO proved to be UNSUSTAINABLE. Whites in western societies are today realizing that they were not only responsible for the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade but now also responsible for the devastating effects of climate change. What they stubbornly still fail to admit is that ANY form of EXPLOITATION whether it is HUMANS, OIL, WIND OR THE SUN is UNSUSTAINABLE because the model of consumption is unsustainable. Natural resources may never be taken from nature to be transported across oceans to be accumulated in store houses and supermarkets... Natural resources must be shared locally, used locally and then be GIVEN BACK to nature for absorption. Natural resources must not be accumulated for the purpose of increasing wealth! They must be used and given back to nature to keep the cycle going. My father my very first teacher once taught me: Every human is born naked- with nothing. All you accumulate in life you get from your community and the natural environment, and when you die you must give every thing back to the same community and natural environment. You may not give it to your children to accumulate in the form of inheritance. When you die you must give it back to your community and the natural environment so that that community and that natural environment may take care of your children...
The western model of economic development has therefore not a ENGINEERING challenge but a MORAL challenge. No ingenuity can make the exploitation of natural resources for the purpose of accumulating wealth sustainable. What needs to change are the UNSUSTAINABLE MODELS OF CONSUMPTION IN THE WEST!!!! What needs to change is the market led economy to be replaced by a morally led economy in which wealth is redefined as to reflect the extend to which one can sustain life and welbeing while maintaining peace, happiness and a positive impact on their human and natural environment...
The much appraised living standards of the west are not to be envied as they are created at the cost, murder and sufferring of millions of humans and the inevitable destruction of all natural live on earth.
Thats why the promise of economic development is a lie, a myth. It is based on the philosophy that the wealth and living standards of Europeans and Americans are more important than the welbeing and survival of any other life form on earth.
Before I was born another of my teachers HIM Haile Selassie I said that the philosophy that holds one race superior and another inferior must finally and permanently be discredited...
I believe that colored people as a social group will never attain the living standards of white europeans and americans. Not only because there is nothing and nobody to enslave like they did...
I hope that the rest of humanity will choose rather to be poor, simple and natural than to subject a fellow creature on this earth to the disgraceful slaughter and pollution white people inflict on this earth.
To my teachers and elders
Rastafari is...
One!
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