Diversity
Biodiversity is the variety of all life forms on earth – the different plants, animals and micro-organisms and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Australia is one country currently developing both a biodiversity policy and a seedbank. A seedbank stores seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere are destroyed. It is a type of gene bank. The seeds stored may be food crops, or those of rare species to protect biodiversity. The reasons for storing seeds may be varied. In the case of food crops, many useful plants that were developed over centuries are now no longer used for commercial agricultural production and are becoming rare. Storing seeds also guards against catastrophic events like natural disasters, outbreaks of disease, or war.
Economic diversity means maintaining a variety of business skills to guard against catastrophic events like natural disasters, outbreaks of disease, or war. Manufacture of essential products can then be sustained even if any or all of these events occur. Despite the aim of many countries to ensure the continued existence of species far less effort is being made to ensure the financial continuation of the economies of most nations. The aim of globalisation as an ideal to ensure that poor countries can raise their standard of living is wonderful in theory but, just like socialism, flaws are now becoming glaringly obvious. It has been the contention of many for a long time that, “you cannot make a poor man rich by making a rich man poor” but that is exactly the aim of globalisation; to make the labour of all workers worldwide exactly equal; to the detriment of the more advanced nations.
Instead of raising the standard of the world’s poorer countries it has merely reduced the income of the majority of workers in developed countries to the level of their third world counterparts. It has also seen the concentration of production in many of these formerly under-developed countries primarily for profit and despite often being remote from the raw materials. Countries like Australia, rich in raw materials often send those materials offshore to places such as China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines or Thailand where goods are produced and then shipped back to Australia for consumption.
This action may assist the manufacturing company but bankrupts producers in Australia which then loses the ability to produce the goods itself leaving it vulnerable if it becomes impossible to import necessities. In a world where many are concerned about atmospheric carbon it seems ludicrous to burn thousands of tons of marine diesel and jet fuel taking goods thousands of miles to be processed, the exact cost of this to both the ecology and the economy is ignored in the pursuit of global equality.
The aim of those responsible for this exercise is nearly complete; countries such as the USA and many European nations are now struggling and suffering under enormous debt burdens. Even countries like Australia are facing mounting debt and increasing unemployment. Global equality is being achieved, every nation on Earth is becoming the equal of the third world there are no longer wealthy nations. That should soon change for China and India as they become the centres of wealth along side the Middle Eastern oil producers.
The countries whose education, science and research built the technology that provided the impetus for civilisation are now being overrun by immigrants seeking to cash in on the work of earlier populations in those countries. The children of those whose industry created the wealth of the nations are being short changed by governments and industry so eager to increase their profit and control that they are content to see much of their population living a subsistence lifestyle. The gap between rich and poor is ever widening but the more worrying trend is that formerly affluent families are now being pressed into menial low paid employment and their shrinking incomes mean that their children will have less opportunity to gain education and decent employment.
Economic diversity means maintaining a variety of business skills to guard against catastrophic events like natural disasters, outbreaks of disease, or war. Manufacture of essential products can then be sustained even if any or all of these events occur. Despite the aim of many countries to ensure the continued existence of species far less effort is being made to ensure the financial continuation of the economies of most nations. The aim of globalisation as an ideal to ensure that poor countries can raise their standard of living is wonderful in theory but, just like socialism, flaws are now becoming glaringly obvious. It has been the contention of many for a long time that, “you cannot make a poor man rich by making a rich man poor” but that is exactly the aim of globalisation; to make the labour of all workers worldwide exactly equal; to the detriment of the more advanced nations.
Instead of raising the standard of the world’s poorer countries it has merely reduced the income of the majority of workers in developed countries to the level of their third world counterparts. It has also seen the concentration of production in many of these formerly under-developed countries primarily for profit and despite often being remote from the raw materials. Countries like Australia, rich in raw materials often send those materials offshore to places such as China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines or Thailand where goods are produced and then shipped back to Australia for consumption.
This action may assist the manufacturing company but bankrupts producers in Australia which then loses the ability to produce the goods itself leaving it vulnerable if it becomes impossible to import necessities. In a world where many are concerned about atmospheric carbon it seems ludicrous to burn thousands of tons of marine diesel and jet fuel taking goods thousands of miles to be processed, the exact cost of this to both the ecology and the economy is ignored in the pursuit of global equality.
The aim of those responsible for this exercise is nearly complete; countries such as the USA and many European nations are now struggling and suffering under enormous debt burdens. Even countries like Australia are facing mounting debt and increasing unemployment. Global equality is being achieved, every nation on Earth is becoming the equal of the third world there are no longer wealthy nations. That should soon change for China and India as they become the centres of wealth along side the Middle Eastern oil producers.
The countries whose education, science and research built the technology that provided the impetus for civilisation are now being overrun by immigrants seeking to cash in on the work of earlier populations in those countries. The children of those whose industry created the wealth of the nations are being short changed by governments and industry so eager to increase their profit and control that they are content to see much of their population living a subsistence lifestyle. The gap between rich and poor is ever widening but the more worrying trend is that formerly affluent families are now being pressed into menial low paid employment and their shrinking incomes mean that their children will have less opportunity to gain education and decent employment.
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