SURVIVAL, LIVABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN TODAY’S WORLD: WORLD LEADERS MUST RISE

By Nnabugwu Chizoba
 
A deadly combination of insurgency, poverty induced vices and crimes of very high magnitude, generalized insecurity, inequalities, immorality, and poor governance is rapidly turning the world into a dismal scene of decay and nightmare.

 

On poverty, it is about time that the world moves beyond just feeding the poor; to wrestle with why the poor are increasing in number. It is time to find out what can be done to leverage the epidemic of poverty, diseases, malnutrition and hunger. It is also time to expand links with groups, government and individuals working on safe water and air issues, energy management, forest preservation, natural heritage, family protection and real right protection of individuals and those working to provide youths with life competencies and entrepreneurial skills development in developing countries. 

The best gift that the world leaders of today, can give in the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals programme is love, integrity and honesty. The world systems emphasize the substantive values of life, which are stored in our religious heritage, namely the obligations we have to each other and the future of mankind, which are very often misplaced, subjugated and misappropriated.

The ways of the modern society have proven to be toxic, annihilating and self-serving. It is a culture of self-destroying tendencies, expediencies, and transiently wasteful catalogue of surprising beliefs, and idiosyncratic nuisance. 

We live in the time of adversity, loss of credibility and purity. It is an epoch of inadequacies in family architecture, homogeneity and discipline. The period is characterized by decline in morals, good habits, knowledge, acceptable standards and domestic harmony. 

The urban landscape has become more complex, demanding new measures, approaches and practices. It is a madcap paradise of consumerism, exotic taste for a mosaic of self-destroying fashion and global supply chain of lewdness, nudity and countless, but wasteful number of protocols. It is a world system encapsulated with imbalances in resource distribution, inequality and detest for justice, equity and fair play.

The real challenge is the predictive dynamics; modern day hocus-pocus, which is manifest in paradoxes and contentions in the game of politics, alignments, and the hyper-skewed sensitivity of human ego. 

Majority of the world populace are still ill-cladded, ill-housed, tortured, oppressed and disconnected from equal participation in socio-economic activities. They are degraded, deprived, dislocated, disoriented, disenfranchised, abused, though not completely disillusioned. They are often called names, castigated and sometimes killed in the most gruesome manner. 

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Yet their murderers use the state apparatus to further libel them in some cases as insurgents, kidnappers, vandals and miscreants, while the real culprits secretly receive the backing of state functionaries.

The reason partly for the epileptic growth of African economy is the wrong culture of waging war against the huge genetic pool potential of the indigenous people. The motive is to continue to subdue, under-develop and annihilate the common people.

There is something of immense significance, deeper in its implications than mere conflicts of interest. The weight of the stance hangs heavily over the cyclical conspiracies occurring through political-business alignment, interplay of cultic appropriation and class struggle.

Come to think of it, is there any reason for any government to clamp down on entrepreneurs who innovate crude oil distillation technology as a means of expanding job creation opportunities, providing employment and wealth generation activities, and increasing productivity, while at the same time sermonizing job creation and entrepreneurship development? 

The current situation if unresolved has the potential to deplete the already threatened economy, climate of social relation and the environmental quality. In order to reverse the trends and refocus government to the legitimate responsibility of delivering a balanced economic system, a reorientation, and are-awakening of sorts a paradigm shift in the activities of world leaders is inescapably necessary. 

Anyanwu Anthony a contributor to this medium said in one of his publications “It is a common tenet that stifling the equal participation of local contents in the specific crude oil refinery has culminated to vandalism, destruction and diversion of the product at both the local and national levels”. 

Continuing, he pointed out that “Local refineries have the capacity to refine crude at a relatively cheaper price and optimal level of production, which can boost employment and reduce poverty, insecurity and crime”.

He advised “As a national strategy to boost the economy, government needs to reposition its policies to encourage all stakeholders to play viable roles aimed at reducing cost and increasing productivity in all sectors of the economy”. Here the opinion of the contributor agrees completely with mine.

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