"Obama and Biden will embrace the Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme poverty and hunger around the world in half by 2015, and they will double our foreign assistance to achieve that goal. This will help the world's weakest states build healthy and educated communities, reduce poverty, develop markets, and generate wealth." The President's agenda
The Bush government avoided tackling the challenge of world poverty and development, sidestepped social justice and public health issues, tried to conceal the Nation's poor and did everything he could to favor the wealthy and greed, all of which nurtured terrorism, illegal immigration and anti-American sentiments in the international community.
Today, over one billion people still go to bed hungry, and 2 billion live below the poverty line. According to UNICEF, 25,000 (thousand) children die each day from the decision-makings of world leaders.
"NEW YORK, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Calling the daily preventable deaths of 25,000 children worldwide 'profoundly shameful and unnecessary', the U.S. Fund for UNICEF today marked Universal Children's Day by launching "Believe in Zero", a campaign that encourages policy makers and the general public to reduce daily child deaths from 25,000 to zero. "These children are not dying from incurable diseases or causes. These children are dying from diarrhea, pneumonia, measles and malaria---things that cost pennies to treat or prevent," said Caryl Stern, President and C.E.O., U.S. Fund for UNICEF. "It is unacceptable and inexcusable that defenseless children continue to die when the technology, expertise and solutions to save them exist right now."
Because our "holistic health sustainable eco-development model" has already shown great results in terms of having the potential to be the best ever approach to end world and home poverty, we need to convince foreign governments to try out this development model. Though not necessary, if eco villages decided to use a "cacao bean monetary system" among themselves within their individual community (as the Maya civilization did a while back), we would need to discuss this question with the Foreign policy team. For tentative draft on this monetary unit, click here.
PLAN OF ACTION
1. To this end, a modest Marshall-like finance plan could be envisioned.
2. A plan which could be tied to American foreign aid.
In other words, if the recipient country wants American aid, it will have to accept building holistic health sustainable eco villages in its countrysides and the eco technology that comes with this model.
3. To boost the process, the establishment of a Federation of eco-villages could be centralized and coordinated either from the White House or the State Department. Or via a private source, in which case it would be filed within the U.N. as a non-government organization. Or a combination of public and private sources.
France could collaborate with us on many fronts, including, but not limited to its influence in franco-phone countries in many different parts of the world.
But before this can be done, we need to better show the results of Essenia America and Essenia France in terms of the "general wellbeing" empirical indicators. Once we can better show that these eco village units can be the new social organization "cells" of Planet Earth we have been waiting for, then it will be easier to get this task done.
THE ROLE OF THE NEXT U.S. AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE
As for the next U.S. ambassador to France, because France has had much more foreign experience with Africa than the United States and since many Africans still speak French and drive "peugeot cars" (even in Nigeria), it would be useful to have a U.S ambassador to France who speaks French like a French person, has some knowledge with the "French air-compressor" car and has direct experience with Africa and world eco-development to export this eco development model in a francophone country like Niger or Senegal or Ivory Coast. And Central America thereafter. (Guatemela, Costa Rica, Panama, followed by Equador, Brazil, Peru and Mexico). Thereafter, the process should mushroom to other Nations.
Indeed, with the President's support and enthusiasm, a U.S ambassador to France could also spread the idea of a universal federation of eco communities as a way to mitigate poverty and militate in favor of internationally recognized human rights and duties, prosperity and peace. In the same way that a human body has trillions of cells, all inter-connected, all in vibrational resonance, in the same way, all sustainable villages could eventually be federalized within a universal trans-frontier structure which could be formalized via a non-governmental organization status at the U.N., a public American institution, a private Land Trust Foundation or a new U.N. body on world eco-edevelopment.
Although we are far from this state of human affairs and it is up to grass root movements to definitively configure this social phenomenon and despite the fact that the State system and the divisive forces therein still have much life to it, nothing forbids a cordial co-existence between State rivalries based on dependencies and intermediaries and eco villages based on autonomy, eco sustainability, the deep respect of human rights and duties and unity.
ADEQUATE U.S. FINANCING TO FRUCTIFY THE PROCESS
With adequate financing from the U.S. government and private sources, one holistic health sustainable eco village could be built and results could be pooring in within two years. Meaning, meeting of all of the eco-villagers' basic needs with few resources, (food, shelter, clothing, water, sleep, health), healing those who suffer from 20th century "civilization diseases", (from cancer, to cardio-vascular diseases, diabetes, multiple auto immune diseases, and many more, all avoidable), producing useful crafts and tools and hemp products for the construction of a new holistic and spiritual civilization, showing the example in terms of alternative energies (small wind turbines, hydro-turbines, solar panels, pedal energies and eventually the "air car"), re-invigorating the human spirit via eco villages' "human rights and duties lighthouse centers" and participating in constructing "civic responsility" art and the Peace of Nations.
If the U.S. Government could allocate as soon as feasible enough to buy 200 to 400 acres of mountain sunny and wooded land in America's SouthWest, we could then begin the construction phase this summer. See the first Essenia America faisibility project via new website.