Three Challenges for the Planet - Jeffrey Sachs
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/07/15/Professor_Jeffrey_Sachs_on_Sustainable_Solutions
Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs outlines what are, in his view, the three greatest challenges to peace the world will face over the next several years.
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One of the world’s leading experts in aid and economic and sustainable development, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, gave a free public lecture at the University of Sydney on Tuesday, 15 July, 2008, to mark the opening of the University’s new Institute for Sustainable Solutions.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs is Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University and the director of The Earth Institute at Columbia, an organisation that leads large-scale efforts to promote sustainability throughout the world.
Professor Sachs is one of the leading international voices for combining economic development with environmental sustainability and is also a special advisor to the United National secretary-general.
His free public lecture marks the officially opening of the University of Sydney’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions - Sydney Institute
Jeffrey Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute, where he is also a professor of sustainable development. The unconventional and impassioned economist advocates combining economic development with environmental sustainability. Through the Earth Institute and as Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, Sachs has analyzed challenges of economic development, poverty alleviation, and globalization for more than twenty years.
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I believe the Earth …
I believe the Earth Institute and projects like them are generating real solutions and promoting a more realistic view of our shared existence on this planet.
We are sharing what is functionally a limited system. When we wake up from our “baby making” frenzy we’ll employ our free will to actually plan for the birth of our children and care for the ones already here. Both individually and collecively. This is a sign of our waking up as a whole. We can use this sign post to predict trends. peace.
This guy works for …
This guy works for the evil international bankers and multinationals. he puts out these whiney speeches but he is actually a shill for the people who are creating poverty. Look at what he did to the people of Bolivia and Russia. But candyass Europeans fall for his speeches. Who doesn’t want to end poverty? And what has he done to end poverty?
No he doesn’t.
No he doesn’t.
At 230 he talks …
At 230 he talks bout population control, an what they dont wanna say, What could it be?
here just take our …
here just take our genetically modified seeds and fertilizers and everything will be OK (*snicker*). I can’t stand this guy!
China is being …
China is being pulled up by the American jobs and businesses that went there in order to bribe them for political reasons
As America collapses into poverty china goes up
HE is a NWO shill
plans laid out under the cover of darkness
are evil ,works of good are always done in the light of day.
“Humans created …
“Humans created poverty” well that’s seems axiomatic as poverty is a human concept. Poverty as it’s understood now exist merely because we have overcome the limitations of nature and this process has not occurred equally across the species.
Neotoy I really don’t what you meant by your comment and my response is not necessarily directed at you.
we have the tech to …
we have the tech to change things
we just have to change thinking
the true problem is that the socalled rich refuse to sist, money is a fake focus
all people can be fed, clothed and housed
one more thing it was judeochristian belief that demanded people not regulate their reproduction (sometimes by horrible means), then refuse to help the people forced to reproduce
in the us there are pharmacies that refuse to give birth control, but dispense viagra
if thats how you …
if thats how you feel why don’t you volunteer?
if we cleaned up our own mess then we wouldn’t be a problem
sometimes humans have managed to IMPROVE their environments
thpt, that’s a …
thpt, that’s a disgusting, morally bankrupt “solution”.
Humans created …
Humans created every problem we’re facing. If we reduce population, we’ll reduce the problems and increase the possible solutions. Less people, more houses, more food, more solutions.
Humans created …
Humans created poverty.