Talk:Social development theory

Perhaps the India's Green revolution should be a separate article and just a link to it would suffice for being an example.

The Weaknesses of the article

This article reads like an essay for a university course and not like an encyclopedia entry. For example it does not consider the possible arguments to the contrary, the discussion on Peak Oil, Biodiversity Loss or Climate Change, that do seem to pose limits to social development. It considers human resources as unlimited when there is a clear limit to human resources,

Available creativity = (the number of people x their individual brain power) - the time needed to maintain themselves.

With the numbers in advanced countries declining, the numbers of people earning less than $2 per day increasing, and rising resource depletion increasing the number of failed states, the declining returns demonstrated in economics and applied to societies by Joseph Tainter is clearly underway. The number of scientific and technological patents per thousand people peaked in the end of the 19th century and has been declining ever since. The article also needs to consider the arguments on why societies succeed or fail of Jarrod Diamond and the Energy Rate of Return on Investment arguments of Thomas Homer Dixon.

Altogether these weaknesses make the article an unbalanced "Progressivist" Tract, not an encyclopedia entry. John D. Croft (talk) 07:38, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Community Economic and Social Development II

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