The author brings up a great point on not helping the poor nations every time in need. If the rich nations always help the poor nations then the poor ones will never learn how to deal with adversity. The poor nations will sit there just waiting for the richer nations to help them out. This seems harsh to just sit by and pretend like they aren’t suffering but they have to learn to make plans for the problems.
The author uses a great metaphor with talking about the Earth being a spaceship but people want the Earth to be a lifeboat. This is very powerful because first the author talks about how a spaceship needs a captain and Earth right now has no captain. This means that the Earth has no one to lead the way on plans to help the poorer nations out.
With the lifeboats the problem is immediate. A lifeboat can only save so many people in the first place which leaves people out already. The next thing is how can we decide who gets to be put on the lifeboat to be safe. That is too hard because there are so many possibilities to think about that the person cannot decide. Now looking at the idea of a lifeboat shows that no matter how hard the people try there will be people left out to starve.
That is why the nations that are going through hardships should be left out to figure it out. This will create more nations to back away from having their hands held and be more self-reliant. Being more self-reliant will create more prosperous nations and create a better Earth to live on.
The other problem with trying to help the poor nations is that some reproduce faster than some. This would be unfair on food distribution because it could be a ten to one ratio since one nation has a bigger population. That is not fair especially if the nation that is the one is producing all the food and the nation getting food for ten is doing nothing. This is more hurtful to the country putting in the hard work compared to the nation doing nothing.
That nation that reproduces faster doesn’t mean they will keep their Earth clean. This brings up the point than why help them out if they do not want to help save the Earth. This Earth is what supplies the land to be able to produce the food that the nation needs to survive.
The author talks about something similar to this and the author calls it tragedy of the commons. The author talks about if we combine with other nations and a farmer has this land that holds only 50 cows but this land is available to everyone than it is hard to keep the land good. The reason is if five farmers live on this land and all of them own 50 cows than the land will be overgrazed by the cows. This will lead to erosion and make the land unusable to produce anything on it again.
The author gives great points on why we should let the poor nations to figure out their own problems. Instead of helping bail them out every time in need. (548 words)
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