Indigenous Peoples and Resource Exploitation: A Case Study in Equatorial Guinea

Cross-linked with Bertelsmann Stiftung – Future Challenges Organization’s site Indigenous peoples and resource exploitation. Who wins, who loses, how is … More

Water Scarcity and Conflict at the Ethiopia-Kenya Border

[Cross-posted at Future Challenges Organization’s blog] Macrotrends: [Natural Resources & BioDiversity + Climate Change + Migration] Water shortages at the Kenyan-Ethiopian … More

Article: Drought, Reforestation and Ethiopia’s Land-Tenure Problem

[Cross-posted at Future Challenges Organization’s blog] [Macrotrends: Climate Change + Natural Resources & BioDiversity] Ethiopia is set to reforest 15 … More

On Aid: Why Good Intentions Are Not Enough

Let’s take the story of a giant, engorged on wealth and privilege. This giant trods upon the earth with greater … More

July 11 is World Population Day: My Response To Malthusian Arguments For “Overpopulation”

So, I just got an email from USAID informing me that today is “World Population Day.” From my cursory reading … More

To All New Readers:

Hello and Welcome to my little space on the internet! I blog primarily about Christianity- I am a reformed [Calvinist] … More

Response: What is Poverty Porn and What Does it Matter for Development?

AID Thoughts: What is “Poverty Porn” and What Does it Matter for Development? Excerpt: «Why is poverty porn (as I’ve … More

I Just Had A Moment

I just read this excerpt from The University of Victoria’s Independent Newspaper: «The Côte d’Ivoire, on the west coast of Africa, … More

My Formulation of the Citizen Consumer

I begin with the assumption that those whom I speak of possess effective demand, so immediately that leaves us with … More

A Brief Overview and Critique of Globalism:

November 17, 2008 Monday African- American Studies 112 In his 1970 book Between Two Ages, Zbigniew Brezezinski, asserts that the … More