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1 Preservation is defined here as the act of maintaining nature, while conservation is the act of rationing limited
resources for later use.
interconnectivity amongst all countries.
Despite good intentions, the idea of sustainable development in every nation involves
conflicted interests. As a young child, I believed in uniform equality being blissfully unaware of
Marxist-Leninist theory, but as I grew older I saw a complicated face being imposed before my
solutions to the world's problems. I found the impossibility of absolute equality being washed
away by human desires and aspirations to raise oneself by his own bootstraps. In addition, I
discovered the seemingly opposing forces of industrialization versus agriculture and social
versus economic development. Target B on MDG 8 states that states should address the special
needs of the least developed countries, but the challenge of reducing these nation's dependency
might entail upsetting the current system of trade and exchange. Although imperialism has been
declared dead following World War II, stories of big industrialized beneficiaries exploiting the
people within underdeveloped areas continue to existtravelling in dark corridors of modern
history, but practically invisible in all but small independent media stations.
Bibliography:
"United Nations Millennium Development Goals." Welcome to the United Nations: It's Your
World. Web. 12 June 2010. <http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/>.