Asset-Stripping the World
George Monbiot has a powerful piece in today's Guardian on the subject of the the EU's trade agreements with poorer countries, in particular the devastating consequences of the EY fisheries off Senegal in West Africa:
"Where once they used gunboats and sepoys, the rich nations now use chequebooks and lawyers to seize food from the hungry. The scramble for resources has begun, but - in the short term, at any rate - we will hardly notice. The rich world's governments will protect themselves from the political cost of shortages, even if it means that other people must starve."
Irish people, with a history deep in the 'Victorian Holocausts' that Monbiot mentions, should not collaborate in this asset-stripping of the third world.
Tuesday 26 August 2008