Sunday, August 18, 2019

Sustainable Development Essay -- Politics, Modern Culture, Huaorani

Sustainable development, when applied to the development of a system, creates complexity for the stakeholders involved in and affected by that development. To delve this complexity, solid definitions must be proposed for development and sustainable development in order for a framework to be established through which these complexities can be understood. Furthermore, these definitions are necessary evils for explorations of the intricacies of sustainable development due to the various paradigms used to define â€Å"development† and â€Å"sustainable development.† One definition of development, and the one that will be utilized within this report, is the, â€Å"utilizing resources to advance the complexity of a whole society.† From this, a definition of sustainable development can be expressed as, â€Å"a modus operandi for development which ensures that the cost to environment and to any individual human being from development is equally compensated.† This definition allows for a unification of the drive to develop with those who lose from any form of development; thus, it can be renamed â€Å"ideal development.† As is beautifully exemplified in the case of the Ecuadorian tribe the Huaorani, socio-political and economic factors allow for them to feel the benefit of sustainable development, but at the cost of the environment. Nevertheless, the problem still remains of what â€Å"modus operandi† should be adopted for dealing with development. As will become clear from an analysis of how the Huaorani tribe interacted with oil conglomerates, the utilitarian solution is the most viable solution because it ensures that the society conducting the development, and thus the large population of people encapsulated within that society, reap the benefits that created inter... ...want to choose harvesting the oil instead of this plan because the state would be able to directly benefit economically and not be tied to private sector investments. Thus, the state’s push to harvest the oil would most likely destroy the biodiversity of the planet, thus making sustainable development, as previously defined, difficult to acquire due to economic pressures. From this analysis, it can be concluded that selling the land allows for sustainable development from the perspective of the tribes and Ecuador as a whole, but does not allow for sustainable development in relation to the environment. Furthermore, this analysis highlights the pivotal role of money in determining sustainable development in that money, as is exemplified here, has the ability to transcend ethical dilemmas through the opportunities it opens up for those who are receiving it.

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