what am i going to reflect on today? this week we went spent our time discussing about development, mainly debating whether it is right for one country to be better off than others. now i can use the special power that everyone always use in class and play devil’s advocate or i can say what i want up front. as i have mentioned in my previous blog, people are not able to change the natural environmental and historical outcome that has caused a country to be the way it is today. we cannot change the position of where a country is located allowing it for more resources. we cannot change the fact that most african countries were colonized in the past and is now struggling to improve. this does not mean that nothing can be done to improve the issue. one of the things that i don’t agree with bjorn lomborg’s speech in this week’s article was how he mentions that water is in the “good” projects and not a higher priority than the other problems. have we forgotten the basic elementary science concept that “life is not possible without water?” every single day, tons of water is used either for sanitation, to cook, to drink, etc. in order to improve underdeveloped nations, one of the first steps that should be taken is the construction of a water system that would provide clean water throughout the country. instead of focusing in the people first, we should focus in creating a system of resources that the people can use to live better. it may seem economically reasonable to deal with the people’s health issues first, but what is the point if they do not have the resources to continue living, eating, drinking healthy?
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