Its yet another year that the World Trade talks have collapsed and this to me seems to be a tradition now. I often ask myself why we have turned into such hardliners when it comes to dealing with an equitable future. Every nation now strives to outdo the other and in so doing those with weak foundations shall continue to lure in poverty. Attention has shifted so much into strategies on how big industries can survive if oil producers decide to withhold produce, on how coalitions can merge to reduce barriers of trade. We have forgotten that in order to move forward we have to move as a team. We all know these big countries am talking about are not in the third world countries (with exception of a few). As years cruise, the exponential curve of poor countries and continents is bound to stiffen to the undesired side. The theory shall hold, the poor will grow poorer...
If no effort is made towards harmonising economic power the development we so much want can not take place because factually these countries we are leaving behind make up a percentage of the consumer population even if it is negligible for now. If we chose to go this way, we will definitely achieve a lot in the short and medium term, but what we will have missed out on is the long term. It is the long term that matters the most. The long term we should be creating for generations to come.
I tend to think efforts should be unanimous in creating a sustainable economic platform that does not choke the poor to their graves but in stead harnesses and pools their resources inclusively to design a world that is equitable and at the same time thoughtful of its upbringing.
This may not be easy but we should try harder together because we have been trying it in disunity.
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