I recall a documentary on tv some months back (if I can remember it I will
return with full details) which had nothing to do with this project but as a
side, we at home commented at the time to the vast devastation of areas in the
parts of China that were being filmed.
We simply could not understand why so much 19th century industry was in
motion in China, in 21st Century. The burning of fossil fuels which overcast
an area half the size of Goa, where people were unable to breathe the air, the
pollution & resulting effects of breathing in the dust, chemicals and such like
was horrendous.
The open spaces and land that could have been cultivated, homes & factories,
offices and an infrastructure that could have been invested in by outsiders or
by central or local goverment left fallow......... hundreds of miles of good
soil & good land, dirtied with chemicals, not unlike the land in and around
even Bhopal today.
Birth defects, early deaths etc was accepted by one and all, happening daily
in both places, Bhopal & this part of China (probably more areas but we only
saw this one area on the film). Apparently there was no alternative for the
inhabitants (again, in either country), they could not move out of their
location, those that did or attempted to were forced back or found nothing on
the other side.
I remember seeing some who fled & tried to cross the mighty river to North
Korea, while meeting up with people from North Korea trying to escape their
miserable lives there. From one hell to another. The North Koreans were always
sent back ........ the Chinese decided to go back home as where they were
living, at least there was some food to eat. On the North Korean side, all
animals were eaten and people were dying of stavation. Only the rich could
afford to eat dog soup in the local eating house.
We have much to thank for a democracy, even if we find liars, corruption &
deceitful types in our local & central offices............. we CAN vote them
out (but that is yet another story), which is more than the poor souls can do
in either China or North Korea, both one-party dictatorships.
John Monteiro
29.10.07....22.30hrs
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"Rajan P. Parrikar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone asked me today why Goa
shouldn't follow the China model for development and infrastructure. China's
"development" has come at a terrible price with staggering damage to the
environment.
There is so much information available in the public domain and on the Internet
on this subject that I do not feel it worth my while to educate the mental
sloths on Goanet. Find out for yourselves the atrocities wrought on the
environment and on the human population
by the Chinese comrades, and ask yourself if that is what you want. A lot of
the havoc this "development" has wrought is simply hidden from the world by the
ruthless communist rulers........ Again, do your homework before shooting off
your next
one-liner question.
r
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