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Impoverished Nations Composting

Posted in Composting Articles April 18, 2006.

Low-Tech Composting on Community Levels in Impoverished Nations

Can composting in a poor low-tech community or nation bring a greater concept of wealth and well-being than a good economy? Does composting have such value?

When people think about gross domestic product that supposedly shows how wealthy a given nation is or is not, the poor of any given nation look at those numbers like they were lies, and with good reason, they dont see any of that wealth in their own lives.

But one thing people in low-tech impoverished communities usually dont have access to, is a good and decent education. And in the end, the GDP only determines the final services and products in a country in any given time, not a nations well-being.

Well-being is what is most important, not the current situation of the economy. GDP is not a calculation of real wealth; well-being is a real calculation of wealth. Human happiness.

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