Colonial Dumping
February 17th, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Consumerism, Environment, Globalization, Health, Labor, New International Division of Labor, Pollution, Poverty, Risk Society, Sustainability
Nice New International Division of Labor we got here: we produce garbage and we send it to poor countries… Larry Summers would be so proud. Maybe Jeffrey Sachs can also make the argument that stripping toxic waste is the best job these people can hope to have, so, it’s all good.
Posted in Consumerism, Economy, Environment, Globalization, Health, Labor, Poverty, Risk Society, Sustainability | 4 Comments »
February 18th, 2009 at 6:49 am
I recommend the book Killing Me Softly: Toxic waste, corporate profit, and the struggle for environmental justice. Dumping in Africa is an issue that is discussed in that book.
The book The Treadmill of Production also is relevant, and I recommend that one too.
February 18th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Thanks for the recommendations, here are the links for anyone interested:
Killing Me Softly
And
The Threadmill of Production
February 18th, 2009 at 8:52 am
There is even a much better movie coming out of Austria called “LEt’s make money” that discusses the slick ways in which investors nowadays are allowed to pollute poor regions of the world to simply make more money out of their capital investments.
February 18th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Links, people, links!