“Still, a central paradox plagues the MDGs. The Millennium Declaration was meant to be a compact between the world’s rich and poor countries. Poor countries promised to refocus their development efforts while rich countries pledged to support them with finance, technology, and access to their markets. But, oddly, of the eight goals, only the last one deals with “global partnership,” or what rich countries can and should do.”
New blog by Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government: ‘After the Millennium Development Goals’.
The survival and development of human kind needs to have, first and foremost, good environmental support. Without good environmental support, it is impossible to achieve the human rights of survival and development. The right to the environment enjoyed by people is one kind of natural (innate) right; it is inherent. At the same time it is an integral, inalienable right.
In the 21st Century, people may be in a situation of dehydration due to long term uncontrolled exploitation of groundwater.
Compared with the economic crisis, the environmental crisis is even more deeply eroding to people’s rights to survival and development; its impact is even more long lasting. Even though environmental issues are not directly shown to deprive people of their rights to freedom and equality, every environmental factor can become a significant cause in eroding human rights. Thus, rather than saying this so-called environmental crisis is a crisis in the relationship between people and nature, it would be better to say it is a crisis in the relationship between people and people, a crisis of humanity, a crisis of human rights.
Posted by Mai | September 22, 2012, 12:39 pm