A higher GDP doesn’t necessarily equate to more social progress – that’s what Michael Green taught me.
It’s 12 : 25 PM on day 1789 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, pray, read Acts 24, publish my Disability of the Day feature, learn one new thing – The watermelon can be classed as both a fruit and a vegetable.– have breakfast, make sandwiches for the kids in our sisi’s (housekeeper’s) neighborhood with sisi’s help as part of Virginia’s Sandwich Run (thank you sisi for all your help today) and work on my potential future project.
Yesterday I watched “How We Can Make the World a Better Place by 2030” – a Ted Talk by Michael Green about how we can reach the U.N’s Global Goals by 2030 – which made me realize that a higher GDP doesn’t necessarily equate to more social progress if a country doesn’t have its priorities straight regardless of its GDP it won’t make much social progress. Watch “How We Can Make the World a Better Place by 2030” below:
I don’t have a brilliant, concise definition for poverty. But I think we can all agree that the U.N.’s 36% of the world population would be a gross and fraudulent underestimation of the extent of poverty back in 2000. Certainly, global poverty has not been reduced to 18% of the human population. Perhaps, if Michael Green were to explain himself, he would say that 36% reflects something else (something less relevant to us) and not actual population density.
Myself, I suspect that 80% of the human population is in poverty for all practical purposes. Of course, I could be mistaken.
I also suspect that the UN sustainable development goals for 2030 serves not the whole of humanity but provides a population and resource management strategy that best serves the wealthy and powerful 1%.
I hope I am very mistaken in such suspicion.
You may be right. I hope you’re mistaken too