Humanity Must Find Its Humanity.
2001 Serie 2 Number 3 Page 23
Christian de Laet seems to have something of an international environmental visionary, but the internet is losing knowledge of him.
In a preface by Wayne Kines, Mr. de Laet was revealed as a participant in the 1972 Stockholm Conference, head od the secretariat for the Canadian Council of Resource and Environment Ministers (CCREM), worker with UNEP, and academician.
This eight-page essay was presented to CACOR in April 2000. In it, Mr. De Laet explored what post-WWII development meant for much of thew world: resource consumption ending “in bottomless pits of waste and garbage.” To obtain any different outcome than that requires much more careful planning than we typically use. That MIGHT allow us to avoid what he termed “mal-development.”
He developed three themes in the essay: info-learning, ‘getting a life,’ and communications.
The first, info-learning, involves learning from past mistakes. This we seem reticent really to do.
The second involves finding ways to make it so development actually delivers food, clothing, shelter, health, education, and leisure to everyone. [Perhaps he thought that food included potable water.]
The third involves sharing knowledge, values, and wisdom, not just information and data.
Separately, he pointed out that humanity cannot survive without other lifeforms.
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