From: "Tom Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change To: "globalchange" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:42 AM Subject: [Global Change: 2661] "Operation Climate Change" a factor in oil price spike
> > The current situation seems to have grown from "Operation Climate > Change", the resulting government repression, and the fact that the > local ethnic population is not benefiting from the oil production. > > Nigeria is a republic, but its one of those nations that the Britain > cobbled together from a bunch of ethnic groups and the dominate ethnic > groups are not doing a good job of addressing the grievances of the > minorities. There are about 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria, making national governance a challenge. The oil-rich southeast region tried to assert independence as a state called Biafra in a civil war that took place during the mid-1960's. I was living in Nigeria at the time and evacuated on advice of the US State Dept. I gather from a recent National Geographic magazine feature that living conditions in the southeast are deplorable despite the production of vast wealth from oil extraction - very sad. http://yellowbordermagazine.com/ngm/0702/feature3/index.html -dl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
