Document: Engineering best-practice South African solutions to bad-practice global problems: A manifesto on local change

This manifesto will first discuss the two critical problems of our time, i) inequality and poverty, and ii) global warmning and climate change, and then identify the commonality in the effects which cause these problems to manifest as well as the major constrains to mitigation practice which could resolve them.

local mitigation practice will then be explianed in terms of reducing the high levels of inequality and environmental impact evident in South Africa: this through high- effeciency improvements to the 'first' and 'second' economies in rural government municipalities which, in conjuction with municipal habitat-restoration practice could greatly improve rural equitability, eliminate rural poverty, and reduce and stabilize the footprint of human impact on rural biospheres at a viable and sustainable level.

concluding the manifesto, the self-governing properties of sustainable natural systems will be discussed, brief contextual case studies of these properties will be presented, and an explanation given as to how these properties could be manifested through developmental rural governence in south Africa.