Journal 10

Today President Barak Obama spoke at the United Nations General Assembly. He and many other leaders from around the world gathered to speak of many things. But one of the things that he mentioned in passing is what I wish to talk about. The reason being that it is pertinent to the research and reason that I am at the United Nations in the first place.

What President Obama mentioned briefly was the fact that the United States is weaning itself off of foreign resources. This intimates the presumption that we are instead, redirecting out interests to American fuels. As is the case with current fracking in Texas and Oklahoma. This is not wrong, but it is not the entire truth either. More and more research is being focused on alternative, or ‘green’, energy. In much the same way that countries such as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are in need of alternative resources and financing for those sources, it is the United States that can financially proliferate an alternative means of energy that can create a sustainable future for the rest of the world.

With many of the members of the United Nations speaking of goals (MDGs, SMDGs, WWDGs) being focused on in poverty stricken nations and LDCs it is important to remember that much of the work (i.e. research, manufacturing, financing) can be accomplished in “first world” countries such as the United States. As a side note, I would also like to mention that much of what was said was a testimonial to the successes made and the achievement of some of those goals. I would certainly like to see a re-actualization of efforts in Sustainable Development Goals but with an emphasis in researching fiscally appealing options for alternative resources in modernized countries that could then be transmitted to LDCs.

Maybe, in the future, instead of a passing comment on relinquishing dependency on foreign resources, a President of the United States of America might spend an entire GA speech on the successes of the above mentioned work and its proliferation to LDCs and the masses.