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Ecological Development Summit:
North-South Reforms in an Interdependent World

A massive tree planting program in deforested Third World countries would allow impoverished peasants to earn a living while reducing global warming by 20%. Reorienting agriculture toward local and regional markets, rather than for export, in such countries would be a deterrent to drug crops and would reinvigorate rural communities and improve living conditions.

This summit will focus on these and other integrated approaches to the larger ecological problems of the Third World. A panel will discuss how they interface with solutions to the Third World debt crisis and the drug crisis, and simultaneously create a larger market to help sustain Eastern European development by relieving some of the intense competition for markets. The Green Movement is sponsoring this discussion group with the hope that it will stimulate interest in the launching of a major campaign addressing these Third World problems.

Organizer:

• Yanique Joseph, TOES/NA and the Green Movement, New York, NY.

Moderator:

• Tony Guglielmi, Green Policy Group, Northampton, MA.

Speakers:

• Richard Falk*, Center for International Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

• Larry Feiner, Independent Consultant and Futurologist and Green Policy Group.

• Oluwasseun Oladapo Ogunseitan*, Director, African Center for Science; environmental journalist in Lagos who broke important stories about toxic dumping in Africa.

• Martin Khor Kok Peng, Third World Network, 87 Cantonment Road, 10250 Penang, Malaysia; tel: 04-373511; 04-373713; cable: CAPEN Penang. Coordinator of the World Rainforest Movement, and Vice President of Friends of the Earth, Malaysia. Winner of the 1988 Right Livelihood Award. Will talk about the impact of economic development on the environment.

• Howard T. Odum, Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32601. Author, Systems Ecology, 1988 Winner of The Crawford Prize in Ecology from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

• Archie Singham, Brooklyn College, Political Science.

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