Articles populaires – Is development a solution for the future?

17 novembre 2007

The aims of this blog

We've just started writing on this blog , so it's just a draft and all the articles will be completed as time passes on... In Europe and the USA, the mainstream trend is to consider that the Third world's problems come from a lack of development. So in...

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17 novembre 2007

Who does US food Aid benefit ?

Sending free food to Africa, even if it really saves peoples, mainly contribut to disrupt the local market and prevent the local production from being sold (because food is coming for free, nobody's going to pay for it). So the farmers stop planting in...

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17 novembre 2007

The world food crisis: Introduction.

The rising of the biofuel industry and the increase of demand for diversified food in China is creating a global increase of food prices all over the world. The first victims of this increase are poor people, for which food is the main expense. An other...

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23 janvier 2008

Downshifting advanced countries to empower the Third world

Introduction The concept of downshifting or simple living, is a way of life based on the idea that you can live better by working less, earning less, consumming less and having more time for social relation and manual activities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_living...

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9 novembre 2007

Are we giving too much love to cars and not enough to Earth?

O you Automobile!! You change me into the king of roads !! With you, fields and forests are turning into asphalt! The atmosphere is warming up and our lungs are getting filled with mud Glory to the holy carcinogenic emanations !! Glory to road kill !!...

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17 novembre 2007

GNP, polution, and the interest of Mankind

As one of our teacher said : polution is a good indicator of development. Meaning that polution is part of the "industrial globalization process" so it's a good thing. In the same way we usually use GNP as a development indicator. In fact GNP increases...

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18 novembre 2007

What's simple is false, what's complex is boring...

What we're trying to do here (following one of our teacher's advice), is to keep in mind and try to explain that nothing is as simple as the mainstream media shows it. All political, social and economical problems are a combination of a huge amount of...

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5 décembre 2007

Is humanitarian action a new itinerary for tourism?

This question is really complex and need to consider a lot of points of views and situations which cannot be applied generally. Thereby, I'll try to divide this subject as much as I can so as to be the most possibly precise. Recently, we've seen the big...

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28 novembre 2007

Will world population decrease In a near future?

A world's population decline Since the begining of our violent adventure of taking on all the world , the human population only increased. Very slowly at first, with the slow improving of agricultural technics, and very quickly since 1850. The human population...

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22 novembre 2007

Solving the energy crisis: optimistic technologies vs pessimistic realism

Lot of people (in our so called developed world) are convinced technology will save humanity. People are convinced the scientists will always found new energies to develop to save us from the "energy crisis". And then mankind will go on another planet...

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9 novembre 2007

Conference in Bessancourt

On tuesday 14.11.07 we went to a conference\debate presented by Serge Latouche, an economy teacher. He was presenting the concepts of voluntary simplicity and the problems of development and growth. It was interesting, we filmed it and will probably put...

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