Poverty today is truly miraculous

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1 Sept 2002 | Leon Louw

[Kermit]

We just need to keep pointing out how profoundly anti-human the eco-wackos are.

[AM2000]

However, India's flirtation with prosperity may be short-lived. It has formidable enemies, including most first-world governments, leading academics and scientists, wealthy foundations, thousands of non-governmental officers, influential journalists, passionate activists, and countless other powerful interests.

Bear in mind that this article doesn't single out the environazis. It also points the finger at "first-world governments".

[boris]

Brilliant piece.

[Alouette]

Mud oozed between the village woman's toes, as she made her way between the shanty houses. Not plain mud, but mud containing rotting garbage, human and animal faeces, urine, and years of decaying vegetation. She milked an emaciated cow.

The stench in this small village in north India was appalling. A gaunt man vomited from the window of a dilapidated bus. Children sat in wet dung and urine making dung pats to dry for fuel; a man rummaged in a garbage heap, like the pig and goat nearby, for whatever might be edible.

This would have been an accurate description of London or New York less than 200 years ago. Read Charles Dickens.

[boris]

"Sustainable for how long: 10, 100, 1000, a million or a billion years? For whom? Advanced people with unknowable future technology and resources? What must be sustainable? Utilisation of "non-renewables"? Why not consume them? They are resources only if used. For how long must we conserve them? Must our decendants, by the same twisted logic, do likewise? Forever?"

Consider the "Natural Resources Defense Council". They "defend" natural resources. However, a resource that cannot be exploited is not a resource at all. So why are these folks "defending" resources? So that they can be exploited in the future?...Or never exploited at all?

--Boris

[Cruising Speed]

bttt

[MacDorcha]

"This would have been an accurate description of London or
New York less than 200 years ago. Read Charles Dickens."

couldnt have said it better myself... i promise you all these eco-libby-freaks dont study history or economy. they study poetry and how to feel good, then pass that as a viable Phd. i had one teacher in my life that was a history teacher and a liberal. and he STILL was against half the crap the clintons did and (when presented the eveidenc) argued FOR Bush's Alaska drilling plan. man, if these third world thinhkers ever want to get out of the third world, they should try just once to figure out how the rest of the world did so well....

[MacDorcha]

in my last post, i mispelled "evidence", i was just typing to fast

[MacDorcha]

and thinkers.. plz, dont tell me if i missed more.... i know ::sigh::

[kaylar]

The "first world environmentalists" want the rest of the world to serve as their own private human zoo : The two-legs (they don't see them as fully human) living 'out there' are to be kept in colorful, traditional squalor so the first worlders wealthy enough to travel around the world can go marvel at a way of life so different from Duluth. Ever hear one of those people talking about how sad it is that the whole world "looks like one giant Des Moines"?

[AM2000]

in my last post, i mispelled "evidence", i was just typing to fast

I know you asked not to be corrected but that's exactly why I must now correct you.. it's misspelled instead of mispelled.. and 'too' instead of 'to'.. ok you can shoot me now

[gcruse]

Some Freeper criticized me the other day for posting an article from the Telegraph. He said it was a left wing newspaper. Just goes to show you not all monkeys are in the zoo.

[weikel]

passionate activists

This could be intrepreted as including the envirowhackos.

[weikel]

Its Macleod of the clan Macleod. So Highlander what was it really like in London and New York 200 years ago LOL( you should know)?

[Welsh Rabbit]

The "first world environmentalists" want the rest of the world to serve as their own private human zoo : The two-legs (they don't see them as fully human) living 'out there' are to be kept in colorful, traditional squalor

Exaclty. They are the true heirs to the bigotted colonialists of old, with their idea of the "white man's burden". They have such contempt for their own society that they find the sqalid, electricity-less conditions of the Third World quaint, and think that they are acting in the best interests of the poor, dumb natives by trying to keep them in conditions they would find anacceptable for themselves.

[AM2000]

Yeap. I was only pointing out that the author doesn't pin all the blame on the environazis..

[Welsh Rabbit]

anacceptable = unacceptable

[Kermit]

No, no, no. The Telegraph is center/right, more for free markets and against regulation. The Telegraph is the home of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who broke a lot of stories about the out-and-out criminality of our impeached former President.

[gcruse]

I know. He was Washington correspondent. I have the book he wrote about Whitewater, and it is one of the best. He's a great guy!

[MacDorcha]

i wasn't in new york 200 years ago. london however... sucked. i much prefered my time spent on the isle of Skye or in France(at the time, they didnt suck) :)