Bill Gates pours billions into Africa, yet his Green Revolution sows dependency, not progress. AGRA's failures deepen hunger and debt. Real change demands local, accountable leadership, not savior complexes. #3E
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The problem with AGRA as I understand it, is, that it creates dependency on a monoculture that worsens the climate troubles on the continent, along with some pretty strict rules about seed usage and limiting use of traditional farming methods? Been a while since I looked into it, might be wrong.
The real NGOs you should be complaining about are the ones that billionaires use as tax shelters. Gates hasn’t been that for decades. He’s not perfect but there is no doubt he’s really trying to help.
His foundation takes proposals. Create one citing verifiable stats of possible improvement and get funded. Him, Buffett and Clinton’s are very approachable. If you have a decent plan they’ll fund it.
You know what? At least he is trying to do something to help, unlike the other billionaires, whose sole response to the climate crisis is to build themselves doomsday bunkers.
How much aid is colonization? Aid must be real, as defined by the local people asking for and receiving it, not defined by someone with a skydad complex as a means to nefarious capitalist ends.
That is why taxing them appropiatly would be so much better (only if there is no facism) Don`t let these 1%er decide where taxes go! Have congress and a group of our peers take charge and hopefully it is better spent and not some ego-trip of a wanna be know it all. as if he knew what people needed.
Some things, to be sure, require more than just money. They require people power, even sacrificial people power. Salvation in fact DOES entail a complex of things. Would you be in the slightest interested in doing more than carp?
Such a line of talk can be and is used to argue against any kind of philanthropy or general social vision. Some people aren't going to put it to maximally profitable use, and then what? Well then if when it's gone, it's gone. But maybe by then it will be missed.
And moral examples of accountability begin at home. The USA, for example, has played fast and loose abroad for selfish reasons long before it came to its current pinnacle of evil in the ironically named MAGA. Just saying!
To be fair, yeah, as they're not starving, the locals can start investing time into thinking of ways to improve their home now that figuring out how not to starve TODAY isnt a monopolizing obsession anymore.
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Sure, but it's ok to give him fish while teaching him to fish because people learn more easily when they haven't starved to death.
To be fair, yeah, as they're not starving, the locals can start investing time into thinking of ways to improve their home now that figuring out how not to starve TODAY isnt a monopolizing obsession anymore.
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