There You Go! A Satirical Cartoon on Sustainable Development

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There You Go! A Satirical Cartoon on Sustainable Development

March 23, 2011 by Ben Ramalingam

These images by Oren Ginzberg appear on this blog as a guest post by Katrin Volkov of Survival International.

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Our original aim was the same as usual:

to bring them sustainable development.

However, in this specific case

we encountered an unexpected challenge.

It turns out that these people,

in their own strange kind of way,

were already sustainable…. So all we could really bring them was…

Development.

We started with Participatory Community Development. But they did not fully participate.

We tried income-generating activities… but some people seemed satisfied with less than a dollar a day.

We even attempted to empower them, but their reaction was more powerful than we expected.

So we opted for a Multi-Stakeholder Cross-Disciplinary Integrated Approach.

We developed innovative Private Sector Partnerships.

We developed Vocational Skills adapted to a shifting economy.

We developed tough conservation measures, to protect the environment from further harm.

And we developed ambitious Social Safety Nets – for those unable to take care of themselves.

This has been a challenging process with many lessons learned.

We certainly look forward to applying them elsewhere in the very near future. But for now let us just say,

Welcome to the Global Village!

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8 Responses

on March 24, 2011 at 4:53 am | Reply Marita Oosthuizen

Sickeningly true!
on March 24, 2011 at 5:29 pm | Reply Elizabeth Lemmer

If people would stop theorising and paying those who theorise. I think this is one of the best comments I have ever seen. It breaks my heart.
on April 9, 2011 at 9:23 am | Reply Sue

It would have been great to have had the 2 ‘developers’ take off their clothes and get lost in the forest with the people. But it is only the devastated landscape that makes sense to these people. Horribly true
on April 10, 2011 at 9:47 am | Reply Julie Adkins

Humility. Where is it!
on May 12, 2011 at 4:30 pm | Reply Sustainable development, a satirical cartoon « thecolorofred

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on May 25, 2011 at 4:27 pm | Reply Elisabeth F

fanfastic! it feels so good to laugh about your own approaches
on September 2, 2011 at 4:20 pm | Reply John NTALEMWA

We and Them !
We no know how we and dem a-go work this out, oy!
We no know how we and dem a-go work it out.
(Bob Marley)

Are “We and Them” in the same boat?
Are “We and Them in the same world?”

I wish our francophone fellows had their share of this VERY GOOD cartoon !
on February 22, 2012 at 4:04 pm | Reply Margaret Wasserfall

Spot on. Everyone lived very happily, very sustainably until development came along. Development?