René Schärer is a retired airline executive who became a social entrepreneur at the age of 52. Since then he has been working for a better world. Documentary filmmaker Micha X. Peled named René and his project in the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil as his favorite development success story.

The bold text below shows how René filled in the development blanks. We invite readers to fill in the blanks themselves by using the comment function below. While you are at it, why not respond to René's suggestion below as well? Here goes:

In an era of limits, the new definition of development is the idea that we cannot develop what is not ours; natural resources have a cost which money can not buy, and we have to maintain the resources for future generations.

As part of the development agenda, water is a public property and can not be privatized.

As part of the development agenda, tourism is not sustainable.

Continued or increased dependence on the automobile will lead to a traffic, trash and pollution problem.

The population explosion will lead to conflict, war and destruction of the planet.

The most likely millennium development goal to be achieved is none of them.

The most difficult millennium development goal to achieve is all of them.

The most glaring thing missing from the development agenda is a new world order where the most important value is not money but rather social and economic justice.

My favorite development success story is the village of Prainha do Canto Verde, which is changing development; in 2009 it was declared an “extractive reserve,” a special designation under Brazilian law.

The sentence I would like to see others complete is: The world can be great place for all humans to live if _________.