February 25, 2009
Energy as a Compounding Agent: InterIntel and the Democratization of Sustainability
Op-Ed, Nuova Energia
By Justin Dargin, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative and Dan Schnitzer
From the introduction: "The old, but well known, proverb states, Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish, and you feedhim for life. This sums up in its entirety the fact that despite the best efforts of the World’s numerous aid agencies and NGOs, and despite the billions of aid dollars spent on the world’s poorest communities, poverty has seemingly become more entrenched. However, as shall be discussed subsequently, poverty can be broken, but only if the poor are viewed as creators of their own destinies, and given the tools to attack the problems that beset them."
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