Many people believe that the first world pollutes the environment, but mankind has never been such excellent stewards of the environment. Recently in an online think tank this issues came up when someone questioned the Indonesia Tsunami aftermath environmental disaster and problems there still

Additionally she stated; There is still no framework or system that provides some form of environmental security

You know it is always interesting that people complain about Industrialization for killing the environment and fail to watch non-industrialization do the same thing, as Native Indians, Tribal People and secluded human groupings in the far secluded third world, do not take care of their environments, chopping down trees for fire wood, burning forests, littering, polluting their own water supplies with human waste and animal waste, as their human troops or groups get too large.

I recommend reading Collapse and Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches. I think that those are two of the books you should read first to really get a handle on the reality of such third world fixes. Additionally read some of the White Papers online at the World Bank and some of the research projects for agriculture, water, disease and food issues on the major NGO sites. Also the Gates Foundation and worthy of mention the reading list at;

http://www.WFS.org

Often has relevant information, however you have to be careful about the Utopia Liberal mentality, because you cannot have your Utopian Society or Island or Civilization, until someone breaks a sweat to build it and generally that takes hard charging, competitive, innovators and entrepreneurial types, the same ones many are busy condemning, You SEE? Consider this in 2006.