Topic: Promoting Sustainable Industry in the Developing World
Country: Iraq
Delegate Name: Shamarri Riddle
School: Flint Central Academy
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Iraq position papers GLIMUN 2008 committees
The world community is faced with a difficult situation regarding what less-industrialized (sometimes called “developing”) countries should do as their societies and economies change. Some countries, such as India and China, are referred to as “rapidly industrializing” because they are quickly adopting patterns of manufacturing, urbanization, and consumption that mirror what took place in Western Europe, North America, and Japan in the 20th century. On the one hand, there is a genuine risk that as more countries industrialize, the global effects of pollution and habitat loss will get worse. Therefore, one response might be to limit further industrialization.
On the other hand, industrialization contributed to the creation of a middle class in G-8 countries, showed to the world what creature comforts could be enjoyed, and supported the widespread use of computers, cell phones, and new technologies. Is it fair to expect people who live in countries with widespread poverty to maintain a traditional or agrarian way of life, especially when climate change, water shortages and habitat loss have already disrupted traditional agriculture and people in wealthy countries enjoy cars, air conditioning and plasma TVs?
Iraq feels that we should not change into a westernized society nation. Although Iraq has a westernized nation helping us at the moment we still keep our nations’ own views when making decisions that regard our nation such as a nation’s laws and ect. If all countries were to follow this path of industrialization and consumption as pioneered by the countries that now make up the G-8, our planet and the people who live on it would be harmed.
