Ecological Economics: Seeking a Sustainable Society
Dharmadeva
Ecological Economics: Seeking a
Sustainable Society
[Garda Ghista, January 1,
2010] - On Friday, November 21st, 2009, Jacques Diouf, chief of the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization, conducted a 24-hour strike cum fast in the lobby of
the Rome-based United Nations FAO office to protest and draw attention to the
plight of the world’s millions of hungry people. He did this just
prior to the United Nations Food Summit, and said that global food output will
have to increase by 70 percent to feed 9.1 billion by 2050. Negotiations that took
place over the next two days which showed a singular reluctant and noncommital
stance by wealthy nations to feed the world’s poor by the proposed
deadline of 2025. In fact, very few heads of state even bothered to attend the
summit. Perhaps they see hunger as an unsolvable problem and up to a billion
human beings as expendable on this populated planet. However, it is not
unsolvable. With proper economic and ecological steps, the problem of hunger
can certainly be relegated to the history museum. Let us explore the steps
required to reach this noble goal, beginning with a perusal of what ecological
economics is all about.
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