Glad you took the mail in the spirit it was intended Hillary. Serious
questions though with many implications. Given the recent and
aforementioned white paper, any one fancy debating?
PB.
At 21:23 +0000 12/12/00, Hillary Shaw wrote:
> > 'Development'.
>4 questions here, OK.....
>Now what exactly dos that mean?
>How about, The growth of huge, unnaccountable, powerful,
>undemocratic corporations, dedicated to extracting the maximum
>wealth from the rest of the world to feed their shareholder's bank
>balances, meanwhile incidentally increasing poverty, inequality,
>diisease, hunger, and mortality
>where does it start?
>Err...Ironbridge, Shropshire, late 18th century?
>> where does it end?
>Don't even think about it. Don't even try to.....
>'developing' from what to where?
>>From a (largely)sustainable world that could (usually) feed itself, to
>a..DRAT!!!!! glug, glug, glug, ...Greenhouse effect, rising sea levels,
>just got my computer......
>
>Hillary Shaw, P/G Geography, University of Leeds
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