Considering that the wealthiest people in the world have hundreds of billions of dollars, and the poorest countries have nothing, there is a simple (in theory) and fair (in theory) way in which the world could be changed.
It is necessary to put the wealth of wealthy people and wealthy countries into the larger context of historical cause-and-effect. Impoverished countries have never had the opportunity to live the way that they wanted to. They are always kept on the cusp of poverty and debt. Shouldn't there be some back payments made? Let's remember (I mentioned it in an earlier story) that Iraq paid $52 billion to Kuwait for Saddam Hussein's rash offensive. Who needs it more? Who deserves it more after Iraq went through?
So I propose what I call the Comoros Bridge project. A parallel technocratic government is hired to turn the country into a circular economy based on the traditional ylang-ylang market, as well as Jatropha biofuel, hemp, and bamboo in place of steel. I would immediately re-negotiate all agreements with other countries. There would be well-developed East African trade and preferential trade agreements with Tanzania and Mozambique. A moratorium on logging old-growth forests, reforest the country (take wood for infrastructure from tree farms in Tanzania), and save all of the endemic species (or at least give them the best chance at life). And charge large amounts of money for ecotourism visas, say $10 a day, that is used to hire locals to assistant should be this be desired.
World economics isn't too difficult to understand, right?
https://medium.com/@econometricfun/predicting-the-economy-of-a-petrostate-baa0b94d295d
At the cost of $2 billion a year. Broken down, that is:
1) $300m sovereign debt
2) ~900,000 x $500 one-off "Keynesian" payments to each citizen to get the economy moving = $450 million
4) Balance for all other business = $1.25 billion
The whole idea is to create the so-called "assistant government for hire" that provides guidance on the level of nation for money, and provide it to a poor country at no cost to them. I could find forty such people to cover all the bases. Comoros is the only Muslim country completely within the Southern Hemisphere with a lot of potential. In it's history, it has had over twenty coups or coup attempts. The French mercenary Bob Denard was used by the French government to cater to their neocolonialist advances and essentially be a French colony. The French also used Moroni (the capital city) to deal in apartheid goods from South Africa without violating any "rules". It's totally doable.
The reason why it is a plan for the entire world and not just Comoros is because if the plan is implemented, then it would bring a sense of curiosity and shame to those with money who are not doing anything (in theory). And if it works, then it is possible to leverage such a position against the wealthy to put up money for helping Madagascar stave off extinction of its endemic flora and fauna as well (e.g. $2 billion each from the top 20 wealthiest... they can afford it). But more so than that, it injects much-needed capital into the African continent, which will be earmarked for intraregional trade between African nations, and provide food for thought for others to come up with a similar idea.
It's a weird thing having an idea like this. An idea that seems so simple. Think about it. Elon Musk spent $44 billion on acquiring Twitter. That could have funded the country for twenty-two years. You would that by the end of that period, we would either see a circular economy, or understand why one is not possible and change our strategy. Once there is a single example of a circular economy, then you just copy the blueprint, and you have a net gain in terms of emissions. There are countries that are poorer than Comoros, but its location is strategic, and it is isolated in terms of border, but not isolated in terms of remoteness.
The weird thing is that I can take the entirety of my education and whatever I've learned while travelling and meeting people and reading books, etc., and say "An optimal solution to changing the world is this, and it only costs $2 billion / yr. Give me a chance and I'll prove it." And that could conceivably change history. Maybe.
That's it. I can almost guarantee it will work, and I guarantee someone can afford the risk somewhere.
What does one do with an idea like this?
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