A few years ago I gave up reading The Guardian because of its take on Blairite things. I started getting The Indie. It chimed with my anti-war and anti-Blair thinking. However I have to put up with a lot of environmental scare-mongering including headline titles like the one above.
This article is a spread with several photographs if you have the printed version.
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The problem is that all mainstream media is suspect.
I did exactly the same thing as you did (especially since Dr. Glen Rangwala pointed out the dodgy dossier of WMD).
well i guess it get more development dollars into the countries like desh, more environment dollars into a country like uk, and more layers of blame for bdeshis to fling at everyone but themselves.
At least we know very well now exactly what happens to aid materials?
I think Bangladesh has to seriously address the issue of natural calamities in the context of an exploding population. The successive governments have miserably failed to persuade people into realising that giving birth to people without securing the offsprings’ future is ridiculous. Either we have a very low IQ or we are thoroughly irresponsible!
How on earth can we sustain half of the US population in a land mass the size of Maine?
Could the NGOs involved in multi-billion dollar businesses through MDG and other sources be forced to address this issue at its core- the grassroots level.
Bangladesh must realize that she has to bear the brunt of industrialization in developed countries. We will forever remain a goldmine for donors to squander billions of euros and dollars of their taxpayers of those countries if we remin stuck in apalling poverty and misfortune. What might be a curse for us is a boon for the wealthy and mighty and their local agents.
We must learn to stand on our own even if it means a painful course in the near future.
Otherwise we will always remain a prey for the ferocious greedy predators!
That is a very malthusian approach, and I am sorry I don’t have time to elaborate but it is an extremely flawed approach and the policy prescriptions that follow are problematic to say the least.
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