"The dominant notion of development manifests itself as more power plants, desalination plants, roads, dams, rockets, malls, bombs, faster cars, glitzy malls, buildings where buildings were never ever meant to be, empty seas, poisoned rivers and deforestation. Development’s collateral damage, the argument goes, must be acceptable to us. Otherwise, we would not have development. Local communities are told that they would have to be the proverbial eggs that would need to be cracked for the sake of the greater common omelette. As the Uttarakhand disaster has once again highlighted, more and more of the cracked eggs are ending up not on our plates but on our faces." - By Nityanand Jayaraman
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 06:02:01 +0000
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