On 8 April 2012 02:30, <bla...@gmizm.com> wrote: > I will stand shoulder to shoulder to stop the tower if each of those > opposed will give up their cell phones. I believe there is no place in Goa > where you can put a tower with no residences within 500 mts radius. This > means what the abreu vaddo group is asking for if they do not give up their > phones is NIMBY. > I hope you see the point. >
Nice argument! It's like saying: I too will oppose murder, provided all those against it first surrender their kitchen-knives. As for NIMBY, it can be used to justify just about anything controversial and disliked by a community. Check out its roots and where it comes from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY NIMBY >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY#mw-head><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY#p-search> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airport_overhead.jpg> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airport_overhead.jpg> An airport <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport> is a typical example of a development that can cause a NIMBY reaction: developers may claim economic benefits for the city, while locals may benefit from improved transport links and new jobs—but they may oppose it with objections to the noise, pollution and traffic it will generate. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nimby_unfinished_tower.jpg> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nimby_unfinished_tower.jpg> Unfinished tower in Tenleytown, Washington, D.C.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenleytown,_Washington,_D.C.> that was later removed as a result of complaints from the local neighborhood <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nimby_Verkehrsberuhigung.jpg> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nimby_Verkehrsberuhigung.jpg> Motorists requesting less car traffic in their street *NIMBY* or *Nimby* is an acronym <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym> for the phrase "*not in my back yard*". The term (or the derivative*Nimbyism*) is used pejoratively <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative> to describe opposition by residents to a proposal for a new development close to them. Opposing residents themselves are sometimes called *Nimbies*. The term was coined in 1980 by Emilie Travel Livezey, and was popularized by British politician Nicholas Ridley<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Ridley,_Baron_Ridley_of_Liddesdale>, who was Conservative <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)> Secretary of State for the Environment<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Environment> .[*citation needed <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>* ] Projects likely to be opposed include but are not limited to tall buildings, chemical plants <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_plant>, industrial parks <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_park>, military bases<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_base> , wind turbines <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine>, desalination plants <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination_plant>, landfills<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill> , incinerators <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incinerator>, power plants<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_plant> , prisons <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison>,[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY#cite_note-mw-0>mobile telephone <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_telephone> network masts, schools <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School>, nuclear waste dumps<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_waste_dump> , landfill <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill> dump sites, youth hostels<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_hostel> , wind farms <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_farm>, golf courses<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_course> , housing developments <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_development> and especially transportation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport> improvement schemes (e.g. new roads <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road>, passenger and freight railways <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway>, highways<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway> ,airports <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport>, seaports<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaport> ). NIMBY is also used more generally to describe people who advocate some proposal (for example,austerity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity> measures including budget cuts, tax increases, downsizing<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downsizing>), but oppose implementing it in a way that would require sacrifice on their part. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to saligao-net@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe email saligao-net-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
