A PS to my previous posting. Should traditional ways of life be preserved
forever? Or should we advocate more humane strategies of modernization
than the World Bank, without differing fundamentally with the project of
modernization? Should Brazilian Indians gather nuts for Ben & Jerry's
foreve
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
develop
On Fri, 10 Jun 1994, Ben Crow wrote:
> There are at least two problems with the International Rivers Network/Faust
> position:
>
> 1) as P. Le Prestre points out, it would be unwise to generalize from a
> few cases. In one of his posts, David Faust, uses only the case of the
> Narmada scheme
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
There are at least two problems with the International Rivers Network/Faust
position:
1) as P. Le Prestre points out, it would be unwise to generalize from a
few cases. In one of his posts, David Faust, uses only the case of the
Narmada scheme to make a general point about all big dams.
2) t
I know this will sound rather crude. But I do have a question that goes
beyond the environmental and big dams issues. Why is
the liberal left so bent on projecting a world that they cannot attain at
home want to see it materialize in societies that do not operate on
liberal principles? Feed
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.
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 nostalg
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
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 deve
Since Ben Crow referred to an argument on another list about a California
organization opposing the Narmada dam, I think it is appropriate to post
the charge and the response from Patrick McCully of International Rivers
Network.
cheers
David Faust
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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 ab
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 ra
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