Urban Age India: Saskia Sassen Cities in Global Context Pt 3
Saskia Sassen, Lynd Professor of Sociology and Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, NY, presents "Cities in a Global Context," from the Urban Age India conference in Mumbai, 2-3 November 2007 (for more details please visit www.urbanage.net)Urban Age's principal aim is to shape the thinking and practice of urban leaders and sustainable urban development. Initiated by the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society, Urban Age is structured around international and multidisciplinary events and research supporting the creation of a new urban agenda for global cities.
All countries need to tax the corporations and the rich at a high rate so they may protect and preserve the ecosystems on which their lives all depend, and protect their people.It's not good to privatize wild areas and keep them off-limits for the poor, while letting the rich enjoy them. We need to keep wild areas wild, period, let no one onto the wild lands. The wildlife of the world need refuges, undisturbed by people and their garbage.