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On Sat, 18 Jun 1994 07:41:56 -0700, Doug Henwood quoted my argument:
This argument does not assume that the labor abundance will last
forever. Because the argument says that you should push technologies
that are appropriate, given the alternatives facing the agricultural
Thank you for your bibliography. Unfortunately none of the alternative
strategies were specified in the polemic that was originally posted, nor
are they ever in most of the popular anti-World Bank polemics I've seen.
I see vague, pious exhortations for decentralized and people-friendly
I didn't quote this message because of its length, but it denounced World
Bank financing for dams as environmentally destructive and destructive as
well of indigenous communities and ways of life.
The anti-damsters have an important point here, but I've never heard any
views on a positive
Ben Crow makes some very good points. The distinction between the enviros
and the forces of productivity is important - to oversimplify a bit, it's
what separates the greens from the reds. I see in a lot of green critique
an unexamined nostalgia for traditional ways of life, a variant on noble
On Fri, 10 Jun 1994, Doug Henwood wrote:
Ben Crow makes some very good points. The distinction between the enviros
and the forces of productivity is important - to oversimplify a bit, it's
what separates the greens from the reds. I see in a lot of green critique
an unexamined nostalgia
I thank Ben for bringing this up before I could.
Anthony D'Costa
On Thu, 9 Jun 1994, Ben Crow wrote:
Andrew Sessions has posted the 'Manibeli Declaration', a proposal from the
International Rivers Network, of Berkeley CA, that there be a
moratorium on World Bank funding of large dams.
I'm not sure exactly what the point of Anthony D'Costa is, but it is
important to note that in the case of the Narmada and other big dams in
India, the issue is not of whether or not to do something to feed more
people, since the small scale alternatives would do that. In the case of
the Narmada
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Andrew Sessions has posted the 'Manibeli Declaration', a proposal from the
International Rivers Network, of Berkeley CA, that there be a
moratorium on World Bank funding of large dams.
Whilst I think the declaration makes several useful points about World Bank
practices, and I hope that it
On Thu, 9 Jun 1994, Ben Crow wrote:
Andrew Sessions has posted the 'Manibeli Declaration', a proposal from the
International Rivers Network, of Berkeley CA, that there be a
moratorium on World Bank funding of large dams.
Whilst I think the declaration makes several useful points about
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