What I took from Mellors essay is that he thinks already developed countries should do everything in their power to help currently developing countries. These developing countries have rampant disease and poverty and Mellor is saying that is partly our fault, for being a developed nation. I take issue with the fact that Mellor is in a way wanting these developed nations to stop being so prosperous to help these countries that are lacking. Yes, I think in a way developed countries should do their best to help these other countries but it is not our job to take care of them. If we and all these other develped nations figured out how to make our society and economy sustainable there is a way for others to do it to. I also understand that it is sometimes harder in these places where their land is not as rich as ours but it can be done and it will just take work. I don’t think it’s far for the people, especially the children to have to suffer from this but we can’t stop what we are doing to make these peoples lives better. It seems like that during times when we do try to help another group of people, it is WIDELY criticized….cough cough…Iraq.
